March 29, 2017

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 DOOLEY’S WEEK

Fraudulent Agency Scams SPC Challenger Withdraws SGA ELECTIONS

Complaint, Citing Workload

By richarD chess anD alex Klugerman Asst. News Editor/City and Asst. News Editor/Campus The 2017 Dooley’s Week headliner is a mystery once again, as Student Programming Council (SPC) has announced themselves victims of a booking agency scam.

Migos, the hip-hop trio SPC initially announced as this year’s Dooley’s Week headliner, will not perform at Emory since the school contracted the group through a fraudulent third-party booking agency, according to SPC President Ria Sabnis (17B).

SPC decided to pursue Migos as the Dooley’s Week performer in January 2017, Sabnis said. Between January and March, SPC communicated with Global Talent Agency, a company claiming to book concerts with highprofile musicians, Executive Director of Community for Campus Life Ed Lee said. SPC Adviser and Student Engagement Coordinator Vernon Smith and SPC Band Party Co-Chairs David Lawson (17B) and Robbie Jacobs (17C) communicated with the agency via email and phone, Sabnis said.

Assistant Vice President for Community Suzanne Onorato said she was currently unable to share the dollar amount of SPC’s payment to Global Talent Agency, citing a possible legal investigation.

“Absolutely,” Onorato said, when asked if the amount would eventually be disclosed to students. She added that if the money is recovered that “it would go back to students.”

Lawson and Jacobs were responsible for negotiating and communicating with Global Talent Agency on behalf of SPC, prior to contract finalization, Sabnis said. Lawson and Jacobs did not respond to request for comment by press time.

Global Talent Agency was not on Campus Life’s pre-approved vendors list, but the Office of Campus Life still

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Student Programming Council (SPC) retracts the announcement of hip-hop group Migos (a Bove) as this year’s Dooley’s Week performer after discovering Emory booked the trio via a fraudulent agency.

allowed the contract to proceed, Lee said, adding that he did not know why.

SPC presented the contract to its adviser, Smith, who reviewed it for compliance with Emory policy and forwarded the documents to the Office of the General Counsel, Lee said. Smith had experience with contract negotiations in his previous job, Onorato said, but added that she did not know what his previous job was.

The Office of the General Counsel also reviewed the contract for compliance with Emory policy, after which the contract was sent to Campus Life.

Senior Vice President and General Counsel Steve Sencer did not respond to request for comment as of press time.

Dave Furhman, senior director of Campus Life auxiliary services and administration, who is authorized to sign contracts on behalf of Emory, signed the contract March 8 with Global Talent Agency, Lee said. As outlined in the contract, Campus Life mailed a check to Global Talent Agency as a deposit, Onorato said.

Sabnis said that the SPC executive

SGA

SGA Administrative Budget Drops 24 Percent By alex Klugerman Assistant News Editor/Campus

The 50th legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) convened March 27 for its last legislative session to discuss three bills on chartering and the SGA budget following the University-wide referendum that split Student Government into two autonomous branches. All three bills passed unanimously with 13 votes.

SGA Vice President of Finance Jason Yu (17B) presented Bill 50sl32 and called for approval of the SGA Administrative Budget for the 51st Student Legislature. The SGA Administrative Budget “provides administrative funding to the SGA Executive Board for running the SGA itself and SGA programs or events,” according to SGA’s Finance Code.

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trative budget is 24 percent lower than the 50th legislature’s administrative budget, which stood at $36,130. The budget reflected a reduction across all spending categories to account for the loss of graduate funding.

“The administrative account of SGA is directly [affected] funded by the fee split,” Yu said. “This bill shows the legislature how we intend to spend the money.”

Yu also presented a financial report of undergraduate divisional councils funded in Fall 2016. College Council spent $247,759.60, BBA Council spent $29,878.96 and Emory Student Nurses Association (ESNA) Council spent $27,050.48. Under the Universitywide Organization (UWO) umbrella, Club Sports spent $77,870.86, Media Council spent $69,345.76, Outdoor

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board and Smith became aware March 21 that Migos was double-booked for a concert April 8 at a similar time in Mississippi, which would have been a violation of the contract that Emory believed it had entered with the thirdparty booking agency.

Smith then contacted Campus Life, which also attempted to contact the agency’s lawyers to no avail, Lee said. At that point, conversations about the agency’s legitimacy began between Campus Life and the Office of the General Counsel, which later confirmed that Global Talent Agency was a fraudulent organization in part by reading its Better Business Bureau (BBB) profile. According to BBB, the agency is listed as out of business and has had four complaints filed against it in the past three years.

Onorato was informed of the company’s record by Director for Office of Student Involvement Leadership and Transition Lisa Loveall, who did not respond to request for comment.

Smith and the band party co-chairs

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David Joannides (17C), who submitted a formal challenge against Student Government Association (SGA) candidates Gurbani Singh (18B) and Natasha Armstrong (18B) to the Elections Board March 25, withdrew his complaint Monday due to scheduling conflicts.

“I was too busy to attend multiple Elections Boards hearings [and] meetings this week,” Joannides wrote in a March 28 statement to the Wheel.

The Elections Board granted the withdrawal, according to Elections Board Chair Betty Zhang (20C).

Singh, who is currently SGA executive vice president, and Armstrong, who is currently SGA representativeat-large, are running on a joint ticket for SGA president and executive vice

president, respectively.

Singh and Armstrong did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

“Elections Board has received correspondence from the challenger declaring that he no longer wishes to pursue the challenge against presidential candidate Gurbani Singh and executive vice presidential candidate Natasha Armstrong due to personal obligations that conflict with his ability to take part in the hearing process,” Zhang wrote in a March 28 statement to the Wheel.

Joannides issued a formal complaint to the Elections Board March 25 “on the basis of violation of the Honor Code and its prohibition of plagiarism,” according to the formal complaint.

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Candidate Lifts Verbatim Portions Of Running Mate’s 2016 Platform

By Julia munslow anD michelle lou Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor SGA executive vice presidential candidate Natasha Armstrong (18B) lifted verbatim approximately 42 percent — 459 words — of her 2017 campaign platform from SGA presidential candidate Gurbani Singh’s (18B) SGA executive vice presidential candidate platform last year.

Armstrong’s platform reads wordfor-word the ideas and language of three major sections of Singh’s 2016 platform: safety and transportation,

academics and dining. Despite the similarities between the platforms, both Singh and Armstrong denied that plagiarism occurred, stating they developed their platforms together.

David Joannides (17C) issued a formal challenge to the Elections Board via email March 25 at 12:24 a.m.

Singh and Armstrong.

Joannides, who said he does not know any of the Student Government Association (SGA) candidates, challenged “the legitimacy of the candidacy of Gurbani Singh and Natasha Armstrong on the basis of violation of

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LEGISLATION

SAPA Storms State Rep’s Talk

By JacoB Durst Senior Staff

A Georgia state representative drew a crowd of more than 100 Emory community members for discussion of controversial campus-related bills.

Georgia Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) discussed sanctuary campuses and his related bill, H.B. 37, as well as H.B. 51, which concerns campus sexual assault cases to about 100 people March 22 in White Hall after student group Emory College Republicans (ECR) invited Ehrhart to speak at Emory.

At the beginning of the town hall, the crowd’s shouting often drowned out Ehrhart.

Throughout the town hall, Ehrhart engaged with event attendees, who called him a “racist” and a sexual assault supporter, among other names.

Ehrhart responded that he desired to “trigger” students and told those

screaming at him that they needed to go back to their “safe spaces with their mom and dad.”

A coalition of more than 30 students representing Sexual Assault Peer Advocates (SAPA) were among the most vocal attendees and grilled

Ehrhart on his policies.

SAPA President Jocelyn Hong (17C), who spoke on her own behalf, said that she believes the students attended to “support survivors and call for accountability.”

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REGULAR DECISION

Emory Acceptance Rate Falls 3.5 Percent, Number of Applications Soar By richarD chess Asst. News Editor/City

Emory’s admission rate fell this year from 25.3 percent last year to 21.8 percent this year, according to Associate Vice Provost for Enrollment and Dean of Admission John Latting.

Of the 5,172 admitted students to the College, the mean unweighted GPA was 3.83, up .03 from last year. The mean composite SAT and ACT scores

are 1475 and 32.3, respectively. Last year, the equivalent SAT score, after conversion from the old test format, was 1434. The ACT score last year was 32.

Oxford sent acceptances to 4,089 students. Students accepted to Oxford had a mean GPA of 3.79. The mean SAT and ACT scores for Oxford acceptees were 1456 and 31.7, respectively.

Latting attributed this year’s drop in admission rate to an increase of

about 19 percent in submitted applications compared to last year. “[We had] almost 4,000 more applications, so it gave the Office [of Admission] more options, more to chose from, so you’ll see that in admit rate,” Latting said.

Interim Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences Michael A. Elliott said he instructed the Office of Undergraduate Admissions to increase the incoming freshman class size after

seeing data on the applicant pool.

Emory admitted 133 more admitted students this year compared to last year.

“This applicant pool is unprecedented in terms of academic quality of the students,” Elliott said. “We think this is an opportunity to raise the academic stature of the University.”

Undergraduate Admissions anticipated an increase in regular decision applications during the early decision

process, according to Latting. About 46 percent of the enrollment class will have been admitted through early decision (ED). In previous years, about 49 to 50 percent of students were admitted through ED. Senior Director of Housing Elaine Turner said she was unaware of any expected housing changes to accommodate the additional freshmen in

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Elections Senior Issues Complaint Against Armstrong, Singh Board to Revise Rules Continued from Page 1

Continued from Page 1 The University Elections Code requires all candidates to follow University policy, Honor Code and Conduct Code, according to University Elections Code Part V, Article 3, Section 2 (J).

Joannides’ complaint cited a March 23 Wheel article that detailed how 42 percent of Armstrong’s 2017 executive vice presidential platform reading word-for-word portions of Singh’s 2016 executive vice presidential candidate platform, repeating Singh’s topics of safety and transportation, academics and dining.

After the elections end March 31 at 8 p.m., Elections Board will meet to discuss updating the University Elections Code to address problems that arose during this year’s election process, which will then be recommended to SGA for approval, according to Zhang.

Zhang said possible improvements may include requiring candidates’ platforms and campaign materials be submitted for review.

Michelle Lou contributed reporting.

— Contact Anwesha Guha at anwesha.guha@emory.edu

the Honor Code and its prohibition of plagiarism,” according to the formal complaint. Joannides’ written complaint cited the March 23 Wheel article about Armstrong lifting verbatim 42 percent of her 2017 platform from her running mate Singh’s 2016 platform for SGA executive vice president.

The Elections Board decided to accept the challenge early Saturday night, according to Elections Board Chair Betty Zhang (20C).

“It is imperative to me that people who violate the Honor Code not be entrusted with student money,” Joannides wrote.

SGA Vice President of Finance Jason Yu (17B) estimates that SGA’s total budget is about $1.43 million before it is disbursed to the divisional councils.

Zhang said that the Elections Board felt that Joannides’ complaint regarding the Honor Code violation merited the Board’s consideration and that the Board has decided to proceed with the challenge process.

According to Emory College’s Honor Code website, “Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s words, ideas or work without providing proper credit.

Whether the act is intentional or not, the Honor Council considers any form of plagiarism to be a violation of the Honor Code.”

Armstrong did not attribute the copied portions from Singh’s 2016 platform to Singh as of March 23 at

form would appear in Armstrong’s 4:30 p.m.

The Wheel confirmed via revi- platform.

Armstrong said she does not believe sion history on Google Docs that Armstrong added the attribution to her actions constituted plagiarism, Singh’s 2016 platform March 23 at stating, “It’s more so plagiarism if 5:25 p.m. following Armstrong’s 4:30 I went in and took it straight from to 4:39 p.m. interview with the Wheel. Gurbani [Singh] and didn’t discuss it In years past, the SGA presidential with her.”

“You’ll see that a lot of initiatives and executive vice presidential candidates ran independently, but SGA were carried over from her platform,” amended its Elections Code in 2015 to Armstrong said. “But to call it plagiaallow presidential and vice presiden- rism is taking it a little far, but I don’t tial candidates to campaign with run- know.”

Singh echoed her ning mates starting unofficial running in 2016. mate.

Elections Board “It is imperative to “Not at all,” Singh Chair Betty Zhang me that people who said when the Wheel (20C) said the Board asked if she considered is evaluating the violate the Honor technological feasiCode not be entrusted Armstrong’s platform plagiarism. “That honbility of implementwith student money.” estly never popped into ing a two-candidate my mind especially ticket voting system.

— David Joannides (17C), because we did [the Singh and Complainant platforms] together.”

Armstrong are camSGA elections paigning together are governed by the and have said they’re University Elections Code, and SGA running on a party ticket.

“I drafted the platform,” Armstrong campaigns are governed through the said of her 2017 platform, adding that Code’s Campaign Option 3.

According to the University “a lot of it does come verbatim from Gurbani [Singh]’s platform last year Elections Code Article 3, Section 2 and that’s because those initiatives (J), “All campaigning shall be subwere not seen through … [and] are ject to university policy, Conduct Code and Honor Code guidelines and/or things that still need to happen.”

Singh said that she gave Armstrong restrictions.”

A candidate’s campaign may be permission to use portions of her 2016 campaign platform, and that she was challenged on the grounds of “any always aware that parts of her plat- University or Divisional Conduct or

Honor Code” by any voting-eligible student, who can bring a case before the Elections Board, according to Part VII, Article 1 of the University Elections Code.

According to Zhang, the Elections Board uses the definition of “plagiarism” in the Emory College Honor Code.

If a candidate plagiarized his or her platform, the candidate would violate the Elections Code, Zhang said. If the candidate is running on a party ticket, any penalty issued by the Board could affect both candidates on the ticket, Zhang said.

Should a violation occur, the Elections Board may issue penalties including one or a combination of: a fine, the removal of the candidate from the election, a new election or the referral of the case to another council such as the Honor Council, according to the University Elections Code.

Armstrong, who is currently SGA representative-at-large, is running unopposed for SGA executive vice president.

Singh is running against Nilang Shah (18C) for the position of SGA president.

The SGA voting period runs from March 28 at 8 p.m. to March 31 at 8 p.m.

— Contact Julia Munslow at julia.munslow@emory.edu and Michelle Lou at michelle.ann.lou@emory.edu

OBITUARY

Pioneering Civil Rights Reporter, Emory Alumnus Dies By emily sullivan Associate Editor

Emory alumnus John Herbers (49C), a former New York Times correspondent who embarked on a near 40-year career of profiling civil rights greats and detailing government scandals following his time at Emory, died March 17 in his Washington, D.C., retirement home of causes linked to degenerative brain disease, according to his daughter, Anne Farris Rosen. He was 93 years old.

Born Nov. 4, 1923, in Memphis, Tenn., Herbers became one of the first journalists to “get down the civil rights story,” said Paul Hendrickson, who considered Herbers a mentor. Herbers wore myriad hats, including justice guru, American norms critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Herbers was also a WWII vet who studied journalism at Emory under the G.I. Bill of Rights. He worked on The Emory Wheel and embraced starkly liberal ideas, said his daughter Mary Herbers, which contrasted those characteristic of his upbringing in a traditional family with a racist vernacular.

After landing his first journalism stint with The Greenwood Star in Mississippi, he booked jobs with

The Jackson Daily News, The New York Times and more, including one with the White House as Watergate unfolded.

Herbers’ daughters remember their father’s commitment to advancing civil rights through storytelling. While he rarely took his stories home, Herbers sometimes brought his daughters on gigs, including to a Klu Klux Klan rally.

“It was an incredible upbringing,” said Rosen, who became a journalist herself. “It wasn’t focused on us. It was focused on this larger world of politics and change.”

After retiring from the New York Times in 1987, a “huge loss” for him, said Mary Herbers, her father transitioned to a life of freelancing and teaching at Princeton University.

“Boy,” he would say, “it’s great teaching at a place you could never get into.”

Yet Herbers had made his way to countless places, letting on little apprehension. Dubbed the “Forrest Gump of journalism” by his family, Herbers frequented landmark events of the civil rights movement, Rosen said.

“He was in Selma; he was in Birmingham … he was in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel when Bobby Kennedy was shot.” And, she added, he saw the body.

Herbers was also in St. Augustine, Fla., when Martin Luther King Jr. refused to budge from a lunch counter, Slate said. Herbers brought his family along for the trip — his wife, Betty, had wanted a beach day — but they wound up a target of the journalist-terrorizing Manucy Raiders who tried everything to “scare Dad out of town.”

When one of the Raiders pulled a rifle in front of Herbers’ hotel room door, he immediately drove his family to safety in Atlanta, Slate recalled.

Then, he headed back to Florida. It took cars full of violent white men and sedentary police officers to force Herbers out of St. Augustine for a second time.

Slate said that as he was leaving, Herbers heard on his car radio, “We got rid of another one of those son-ofa-bitch reporters.”

Despite the rampant terror in the South, Slate said, “He didn’t want to hide from us what was happening.”

Although Herbers boarded Air Force One to report on former U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and chatted with Malcolm X, his work was not always glorious.

He also labored over U.S. Census reports and meticulously edited colleagues’ stories.

Even so, Herbers lost himself in his work. He covered the 1955 Emmett Till trial during one sweaty September, Slate said. He scrambled from a segregated courtroom to payphone areas swarming with hungry reporters.

When the Till verdict was read and the two white men were acquitted, he walked across the street and ordered a beer.

On the night of the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., Herbers went to the four homes of the girls who were killed and interviewed their parents, Rosen recalled.

In his memoir, scheduled to be published next year, Herbers recounts the moment he learned about the bombing via his rental car radio.

The same journalistic drive that once led him back to St. Augustine consumed Herbers: “I pulled a sharp U-turn and headed back downtown [to report],” he wrote in the untitled memoir.

That same year, Herbers met Bill Kovach, who would become a New York Times colleague and lifelong friend. “John [defeated the competition] without upsetting anybody, even the people he beat,” Kovach said.

Herbers always got the story,

Kovach said, with a cut-in-half notebook hidden in his hip pocket. “He covered it deeper; he covered it better; he covered it more carefully and he won the race.”

Hendrickson added that Herbers always granted his subjects humanity. During an early encounter, Hendrickson showed Herbers a Life Magazine photograph depicting the James Meredith narrative, in which seven sheriffs worked hand over fist to prevent a black student’s attendance at Ole Miss.

Herbers spread the photograph on his knees and shook his head. “He said, ‘these are our people,’” Hendrickson recalled. “He didn’t condemn them. He understood them.”

While Herbers might have been gone on a story for five to six weeks at a time, his daughters said he made time to teach them good values and to bask in their company when possible.

He also made abundant time for his wife Betty, who died six weeks before him. “[My mom] thought [Herbers] could be president, and don’t we wish she could have been right,” Slate said.

— Contact Emily Sullivan at emily.sullivan@emory.edu

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Emory Considers Legal Action Against Agency initially contacted Global Talent Agency some time between March 21 and 25 to request the concert be rescheduled to April 7, Sabnis said.

The agency responded to Smith March 25, saying Migos was unavailable April 7 or 8 and could no longer perform at Emory, Sabnis said.

“When we started to do more indepth research to figure out why we weren’t getting a response [from Global Talent Agency] we discovered that the organization was a fraud,” Onorato said.

Smith told Sabnis March 26 that Migos could not perform April 7 or 8.

Sabnis was not informed until March 27 that the agency was fraudulent and did not represent Migos, she said.

Emory has launched an investigation into how the University might pursue legal action against the fraudulent agency, Onorato said.

“We are also working to put together some sort of police filing because we want to make sure, in the end … legal action is taken,” Dooley’s Week Co-Chair Penelope Pentzas (17C) said.

SPC is now looking for a lowerprofile artist to perform at Dooley’s Week, Sabnis said.

“We are working with SPC to identify entertainers that might be available,” Onorato said. “Of course, that means [the groups] are not necessarily as high profile as Migos is.”

Smith is taking the lead on the new artist search, Sabnis said, adding that she hopes Campus Life will examine the booking process to prevent a similar incident from occurring again.

Global Talent Agency swindled Ball State University (BSU) (Ind.) in a similar manner by fraudulently claim-

ing to represent Chance the Rapper, according to The Chicago Tribune.

BSU contracted with Global Talent Agency to have a concert on the same day as Emory’s April 8 concert, the Tribune reported. BSU paid more than $10,000 to the agency and was forced to refund more than 500 tickets.

Global Talent Agency did not respond to request for comment by press time.

Student Government Association (SGA) President Max Zoberman (17C) and Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) President Jared Greenbaum (17B) declined to comment. SGA plans to send out a statement regarding the situation within 24 hours, Zoberman told the Wheel March 28 at 7:57 p.m.

“Members of the Emory University community have been a victim of fraud,” Associate Director of University Media Relations Elaine Justice wrote in a March 28 statement to the Wheel.

Christopher DeVore (19PH), a Rollins School of Public Health representative on GSGA, called for the resignation of the entire SPC executive board.

“It just shows they don’t know what they’re doing,” DeVore said. “I just don’t have any confidence in the SPC leadership.”

Other students are more sympathetic toward SPC. “I was absolutely excited to see [Migos] but … it’s not their fault, so I’m not too mad,” Kevin Adams (20C) said.

— Contact Alex Klugerman at alex.klugerman@emory.edu and Richard Chess at richard.chess@ emory.edu

The Emory Wheel Volume 98, Number 21 © 2017 The Emory Wheel Dobbs University Center, Room 540 605 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA, 30322 Business (404) 727-6178 Editor-in-Chief Julia Munslow (404) 727-0279 Founded in 1919, The Emory Wheel is the financially and editorially independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University in Atlanta. The Wheel is a member publication of Media Council, Emory’s organization of student publications. The Wheel reserves the rights to all content as it appears in these pages, and permission to reproduce material must be granted by the editor-in-chief.

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The Wheel is also available online at www.emorywheel.com.

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Crime Report Compiled By Monica Lefton On March 21 at 10:15 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding harassing communications at Longstreet-Means Hall.

An Emory student’s father called EPD to report that his son had been threatened during a Snapchat conversation with a female student. The conversation became heated and the two students started exchanging insults.

Another male entered the Snapchat conversation and threatened to “pay him a visit” if he did not stop insulting the female student. This male later sent pictures of a firearm and himself defecating in a toilet. Campus Life was notified.

On March 22 at 3:07 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a theft at the Peavine 1 Parking Deck on level two. Officers arrived on the scene and spoke with a parking lot attendant who reported two parking boots stolen March 21 between 11:44 a.m. and 6 p.m. from a parked beige Honda.

The vehicle was originally booted by parking services because it was unregistered and the owner could not be identified. Neither the vehicle nor the boots could be located. The boots were valued at $100 and $600, respectively. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On March 23 at 9:12 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a fire

at Mizell Bridge. Upon arrival, officers observed a fire caused by a tree log and some twigs under the bridge in the Baker Woodlands. Two officers used extinguishers from their vehicles to extinguish the fire. DeKalb County Fire Rescue Department arrived on the scene, deemed the area safe and sprayed water around the location. The cause of the fire is unknown and there was no apparent damage.

On March 23 at 9:09 p.m., EPD responded a call from a Campus Life coordinator reporting a narcotics violation on the third floor of Few Hall.

Officers met with the coordinator, who reported smelling marijuana outside of a student’s room after seeing someone blow smoke out of the third-story window. When the coordinator entered the room, he observed a glass pipe and marijuana sitting on the window sill and called EPD. Officers at the scene spoke with the room’s occupant, who granted them entry into the room.

Officers saw two small plastic baggies of a leafy substance, a multi-colored glass pipe that smelled of burnt marijuana and a grinder on the desk.

The student said some of these things belonged to him and some belonged to a student on another floor. The student in the room received a citation from DeKalb County for less than one ounce of marijuana. The items were confiscated and placed into evidence at the EPD station. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On March 25 at 4:09 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a bicycle stolen from the Anthropology building.

An Emory student reported locking his blue Trek bike with a combination lock to a rack outside of the Anthropology building March 21 around 12:55 p.m.

On March 22 at 12:20 p.m., he noticed the bike was still there, but when he returned to the rack March 23 at 2:15 p.m., the bike was gone. The bike, valued at more than $500, and the lock were missing but his helmet was still there. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On March 27 at 12:46 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a domestic dispute at Longstreet-Means Hall.

Officers met with a Campus Life professional who was contacted by a Resident Adviser (RA) in the building regarding a dispute between an student and his father. The Campus Life professional reported seeing the subject kicking and punching his father. Officers spoke with the victim, who said the subject threatened him but denied any physical contact. The subject denied making threats and asked to be left alone.

Campus Life and Student Intervention Services reportedly spoke with the subject after he calmed down. Officers waited with the victim until his Uber to leave campus arrived. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

— Contact Monica Lefton at monica.lefton@emory.edu

Univ. Admits 133 More Students Than Last Year Continued from Page 2 the incoming class. Turner confirmed her office would provide a room to all incoming freshmen. Director of Residence Life and Housing Scott Rausch was unable to comment by press time due to scheduling conflicts.

This year, Emory provided the ability to select an “undecided” option for applicants’ academic interests. Seven percent of applicants selected “undecided.”Undergraduate Admissions tried to attract more students to apply by easing the financial burden, according to Latting.

“We did make some adjustments [to financial aid] to try and strengthen our appeal … for low-income families, middle-income families and even uppermiddle income families where they’re prosperous families but the costs of Emory are so high we know it can be a sacrifice financially,” Latting said.

John Leach, director of the Office of Financial Aid, did not respond to request for comment by press time.

International students accounted for 13 percent of the admitted class.

Top countries of origin for international students, in order of frequency, are China, India, South Korea, Canada and Brazil.

Although The New York Times reported March 16 that 40 percent of colleges saw a decline in international-student applications as a result of President Donald J. Trump’s immigration policies, Latting said international applications increased by the same rate as domestic applications.

This year, Emory began accepting applications from the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, an alternative application to the Common App. The Coalition for Access,

Affordability and Success provides a college application platform that is geared toward making the application process easier by connecting students with free support from several institutions’ admissions and financial aid personnel, according to its website. Of the 23,694 applications, fewer than 1,000 were submitted through the Coalition Application.

Cole Gallagher, who will play on Emory’s soccer team starting Fall 2017, said that Emory was his first-choice school.

“When Emory gave me the offer … I knew that was where I wanted to be,” Gallagher said. “The opportunities that Atlanta provides … and the notable alumni network: everything just seems perfect.”

— Contact Richard Chess at rchess@emory.edu

Legislators Deem SPC, TableTalk Executive Agencies Continued from Page 1 Emory spent $23,894.39 and Table Talk spent $2,550.13. SGA ultimately approves both divisional council and UWO budgets, but divisional council budgets aren’t subject to as strict of a review process, Yu said.

“We wouldn’t be questioning the rationale behind [divisional councils’] allocation decisions, but rather just ensuring that they are following the proper guidelines for the use of Student Activity Fee money,” Yu said. “UWOs are essentially clubs chartered within SGA, and thus we would be examining their budgets and asking them to provide more information about why a club needs a certain amount of funding for an event.”

Divisional councils use their allocated funds at their own discretion,

and spending is “pretty standard year to year,” Yu added.

Bill 50sl31, also presented by Yu, called for the temporary suspension of two sections of the SGA Finance Code to avoid breaching its laws: Part V, Clause 21.3.1, which states “All deadlines and the Operational Budgeting Process must be before the SGA elections” and Part IV, Clause 19.1 of the SGA Finance Code, which states that any changes to the SGA Fee split must be made at least 30 days before the date on which operational budget requests are due.

According to Yu, SGA is unable to fulfill those requirements in wake of the government split. UWOs are unsure of the amount of funds they will be receiving from the graduate divisions as the SGA and Graduate Student Government Association

(GSGA) undergo negotiations, leaving it impossible for SGA to complete a budget on time. Additionally, the General Finance Timeline, and Part IV, Clause 19.1 needed to be suspended to account for fee splits that will take place next month under the new government structure, Yu said.

Bill 50sl30 called for the creation of an “Executive Agency” designation and charter to replace the “University Wide Organization (UWO)” designation outlined in Article 3 of the SGA Chartering Bylaws, and was submitted

by SGA Attorney General Christopher Lam (17B). The bill proposed the terminological change as SGA and GSGA now share control of UWOs under the Joint Governance Committee (JGC), which has yet to create a contemporary definition of the term.

According to the bill, an execu-

tive agency “must demonstrate to the Legislature that it is logistically unfeasible for the organization to carry out their mission under an undergraduate divisional council,” and is subject to yearly review by the SGA. “Once [the executive agencies] are set up, standards will be decided which will be unique to the organizations,” Lam said. “[Student Programming Council] (SPC) might be evaluated based on how many people show up to their events and TableTalk might be evaluated on how many different divisional councils they are able to cater to.”

The bill acknowledged that TableTalk and SPC both “primarily serve undergraduate students,” and granted the organizations their Executive Agency Charters. The new charters replaced their classification

as UWOs and puts them under the governance of the SGA, although future organizations seeking the Executive Agency label will be subject to majority approval from all undergraduate divisional councils in addition to the SGA legislature.

“To speed up the process since [SPC and TableTalk have] shown they’ve been capable of catering to multiple divisions, we are forgoing the process of having the four undergraduate divisional councils [vote],” Lam said.

The legislature also unanimously approved a charter of The Emory Poker Club after finding that they met all requirements under the SGA chartering bylaws, including acquiring a minimum number of 10 members.

— Contact Alex Klugerman at alex.klugerman@emory.edu

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STATE OF RACE

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Neufeld Elected Pres., Tiruvadi Wins VP By michelle lou Executive Editor

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Comedian and Saturday night Live actress Sasheer Zamata speaks to the crowd about her experience as a black woman in the entertainment industry at College Council’s ‘State of race’ March 24.

Mark Neufeld (18B) and Vineet Tiruvadi (19M) will serve as the next Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) president and vice president, respectively, according to Deputy Chief of Staff of GSGA Monique Clark (18L). Less than 6 percent of all graduate students voted in the GSGA elections.

Neufeld, who ran unopposed, received 351 votes in his favor and 23 votes of no confidence. He is currently a Goizueta Business School Representative on GSGA. Mark neufeld, GSGA PresidentElect

SNL Actress Fuses Race, Humor By monica lefton Staff Writer

Saturday Night Live (SNL) cast member Sasheer Zamata is not afraid to talk about race, and she’ll make you laugh while she does it.

“I put [race] into my material because I can,” Zamata said. “It’s not a concern of mine if this will hinder my popularity.”

Combining personal anecdotes, stand-up comedy and advice on activism, Zamata presented the State of Race keynote, the final event of College Council’s (CC) Social Justice week March 24 to about 65 students at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB) Auditorium.

The week aimed to deal with “different social justice issues and topics that are very pertinent to campus or especially relevant to college students,” CC President Molly Zhu (17C) said.

CC chose Zamata for her role on SNL and previous work in social justice, according to CC Co-Vice President of Programming Arooj Khalid (18C).

“She talks a lot about discrimination and colorism and is outspoken on

women’s rights,” Khalid said. “She’s also a comedian, so we thought that she’d have an interesting spin on race.”

With a light touch of humor, Zamata urged the audience to interact with people different from themselves and learn to collaborate with and help others.

“You can use your privilege to help other people. I use my white boyfriend to help me hail cabs,” she said, explaining how she waits for her boyfriend to flag down a cab in New York, before running into the vehicle, and shouting “Black Rides Matter!”

Although her mixture of comedy and race can sometimes be tricky, Zamata said she feels that race is an important topic to explore because it affects everyone and always will.

We can try to ignore [race] as much as possible, but it still exists,” Zamata said. “We can talk about these things and not have to agree, but hopefully each party can learn something and grow eventually.”

Much of her material also touched on the importance of discussion.

In several of her stories, Zamata emphasized that “we need everyone to be a part of every conversation if we want the messages to be heard [because] if you don’t include everyone

you’re not having a conversation.”

Several attendees asked Zamata questions about her journey into comedy and work with social justice.

Adesola Thomas (20C), who was excited to hear Zamata speak, was one of 10 audience members randomly selected to attend a private meetand-greet with Zamata following the speech and Q&A session.

“I’ve watched SNL since I was eight years old, and it’s a very important part of my life,” Thomas said. “It’s such a blessing to be in her presence and to listen to her talk about race and social justice during a politically imperative time.”

When Thomas asked about her role as one of the few women of color on SNL’s cast, Zamata answered, “It’s nice to be represented.”

Alyssa Kim (19C) said that conversations about race at college is crucial.

“I think it’s really important, especially on a campus like Emory, to get dialogue started because we emphasize diversity so much,” Kim said. “We really need to follow through with what we’re saying.”

— Contact Monica Lefton at monica.lefton@emory.edu

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Tiruvadi received 256 votes to clinch the vice presidential position, while his opponent Jim Kwon (20G) received 118 votes.

Neufeld said that “the most important thing is [to] start connecting with the divisional councils, making sure that I understand what their experience looks like and what I can do to make it better.” The GSGA presidentelect hopes to create more cross-divisional GSGA facilitated events, expand shuttle hours and “embed Emory students into the fabric of the Atlanta experience,” according to his platform.

Tiruvadi said he was “very excited to work with everyone and get GSGA up and running” when he found out about the election results.

“I think a lot of what we’re going to try to work toward is making GSGA an organization that everyone feels engaged with,” Tirvadi said in reaction to the low voter turnout.

GSGA President Jared Greenbaum (17B), who has worked with both Neufeld and Tiruvadi, said he is confident in their abilities given their past experiences with student government.

“Mark [Neufeld] was one of the bill co-authors of the restructure so he has been intimately involved with the goings on of this year,” Greenbaum said. “He’s very well-versed in what’s been happening in the last year: … the different outcomes of the referendum and things that are necessary for this transition to be completed.”

Greenbaum declined to comment on what Neufeld has to work on in terms of the GSGA-SGA split transition because the process is ongoing.

Greenbaum commended Tiruvadi’s dedication to ensuring that Laney students’ voices are heard, pointing to the example of the monthly town halls he started.

The two worked together this past year when Tiruvadi served as the Laney Graduate School senator on the University Senate.

Vineet and Tiruvadi will serve as president and vice president-elect, respectively, for one and a half months and officially transition into their official titles the week of April 23, according to Greenbaum.

Although Kwon lost the GSGA vice presidential election, he still plans to participate in student government, possibly on the Laney Graduate Student Council.

“People chose who they wanted,” Kwon said. “[The election and campaign process] was a little short in my opinion, but I think it was the first in recent years that had any sort of competition, so I think we’re moving in the right direction.”

Although Christopher DeVore (19PH) originally opposed Neufeld in the election, DeVore dropped out of the GSGA presidential race March 21.

DeVore said he will continue to serve on the GSGA Legislature as a Rollins School of Public Health representative.

“Mark [Neufeld] and I both serve on the current GSGA administration’s Governance Committee and both of our platforms [were] identical,” DeVore said. “I have no doubt that Mark will make a great president of the GSGA.”

— Contact Michelle Lou at mlou3@emory.edu

Ehrhart, Students Clash Over ‘Sanctuary Campus’ Label Continued from Page 1 Approximately 10 students, including Hong, walked out in protest of Ehrhart over the course of the event in protest of the format of the event.

Ehrhart initially only took questions that were submitted prior to the event.

Once the audience calmed, Ehrhart took live questions from audience members on his bills as well as a range of other subjects like campus safety and the Trump administration.

Ehrhart said that H.B. 37 would cut state funding for colleges that refuse to comply with law enforcement in protecting undocumented students.

“You have to follow the laws of this country,” Ehrhart said. “If you can’t follow the law, the funds won’t follow you.”

Several colleges nationwide, such as Columbia University (N.Y.) and Tufts University (Mass.), have designated themselves a “sanctuary campus.”

While the label has no legal definition, it signals that the school will support its undocumented students.

The “sanctuary campus” movement arrived at Emory after nearly 1,500 Emory community members signed a November 2016 petition calling for Emory to designate itself a “sanctuary campus.”

University President Claire E. Sterk

decided against adopting the designation, but pledged to continue supporting undocumented students.

Ehrhart said that Emory is no longer at risk of losing any of its $96 million in state funds because the University has agreed to follow the law, even though it will offer support to undocumented students.

Ehrhart’s statement was hardly a relief to Lynne Huffer, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and a member of Emory Sanctuary Coalition, a group that advocates for undocumented students.

“I’m concerned about this bill’s effect on Emory, but it’s more than Emory,” Huffer said. “Putting this bill in the larger picture of how brutally anti-immigrant our society has become, it’s not surprising that undocumented students feel threatened.”

H.B 37 has passed the Georgia House of Representatives in February and Senate Tuesday.

The bill now rests with Gov. Nathan Deal, who will decide whether to sign it.

The conversation veered toward H.B. 51, which was tabled by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday night.

The bill would have required a lawenforcement led criminal investigation

take place prior to punishing someone for a crime committed on a college campus.

Ehrhart has said that he hopes to attach H.B. 51 to another unspecified piece of legislation in order to force a vote on the bill.

“The only thing that bill says you can’t do is punish someone without due process,” Ehrhart said.

It would also take money currently devoted to campus investigations of Title IX complaints and give it to campus sexual assault prevention, counseling and training programs for students.

Following the 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter from the U.S. Department of Education, more than 300 colleges and universities revamped their sexual assault investigation process.

The letter issued guidelines to address sexual violence on college campuses which, according to Ehrhart, infringe on due process for the accused while costing taxpayers millions.

Hong disagreed with Ehrhart, stating she believed the letter was intended as a reminder to institutions to follow Title IX. According to Hong, the campus Title IX process helps survivors avoid a law enforcement system that some victims advocates believe is unsympathetic and unhelpful for

victims.

“Forcing survivors from one broken system to another isn’t the solution,” Hong said.

Ehrhart railed against Title IX coordinators at colleges and universities, claiming that their training is inadequate. Several of the bill’s critics believe it will severely repress reporting of sexual assaults, but Ehrhart disagrees.

“If you see the millions that we are going to spend on [sexual assault prevention and counseling], the outcome of this is going to be a 180 from that perception,” he said. “We’re talking about real counselors, bringing in third-party victim groups as contractors. We’re talking about real prevention resources.”

Danielle Trottier (17C), who attended the event, believes the bill stands only to help the accused, despite the potential resource funding increase.

“My biggest issue with the bill is that it protects perpetrators [of sexual assault],” Trottier said. “Survivors should be able to decide how they want to go forward. There is no clear easy fix to sexual assault, but I don’t think it’s limiting the options of survivors.”

While ECR President Christian Zimm (17C) said he was not “terribly familiar” with H.B. 51, he argued

that everyone deserves constitutional protections.

“Everyone has a right to due process,” Zimm said. “Each party, both the accuser and the accused, deserves due process.”

Hong felt Ehrhart was “disingenuous.”

“He talks a big talk about civil discourse, but almost all of the questions came from the notecards [submitted prior to the event],” Hong said. “Even the questions he took from the crowd — he got to pick who he called on.”

In addition to a strong showing from SAPA, numerous openexpression observers and University communications officials attended the event.

Ehrhart traveled with several security guards.

The state representative said he felt the extra security was necessary, as he was hit in the face with a sign at Emory 18 years ago.

However, he commended the audience for its civility.

“We invited Congressman Ehrhart to tell the other side of the story,” Zimm said. “I think that for the most part we were able to have a good discussion.”

— Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.durst@emory.edu

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Editorials

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 | Editorials Editor: Annie Cohen (annie.cohen@emory.edu)

Endorsements 2017 Singh: Qualified but Questionable Schwartz Shines Above Rest, Sets High Bar

After a year of missteps and oversights, the Student Government Association (SGA) desperately needs a leader with sound judgment who will bring stability to an organization that has been disrupted by a chaotic split process.

Neither Gurbani Singh (18B) nor Nilang Shah (18C) have proven themselves to be that leader. Only Singh, however, possesses the knowledge and experience that the SGA president position demands.

Singh’s extensive platform centers around creating a “bottom-up” student culture that would grant necessary autonomy to divisional councils and student organizations. We applaud her goal to increase communication between SGA and student organizations rather than to merely regulate them. That initiative includes one of Singh’s strongest proposals, which encourages legislators to approach clubs instead of demanding that clubs seek out SGA to voice their concerns.

During the Wheel debates, Singh called for SGA to maintain regular communication with the Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) through the Joint Governance Committee (JGC). Cooperation between the two legislatures is vital for University-wide programs such as transportation and safety initiatives.

Though qualified, Singh has demonstrated that she is a flawed candidate on more than one occasion. As the current SGA executive vice president, Singh is the second-highest SGA

officer in an administration that has violated its Constitution in the last six months and inadvertently placed itself in an extra-constitutional state.

During that time, Singh disregarded due process by advocating against SGA Attorney General Christopher Lam’s (17B) warning that the vote on a Feb. 27 SGA restructure amendment would be considered invalid under the former SGA Constitution, to pass the amendment despite lacking the required twothirds of the legislature.

Though qualified, Singh has demonstrated that she is a flawed candidate on more than one occasion.

With a budget of about $1.43 million, even small mistakes by SGA can have disastrous and far-reaching consequences. It is imperative that Singh follows through on her pledge to prioritize communication so that she can re-build the student body’s confidence in SGA following their blunders this past academic year.

Another episode which casts doubt on Singh is the careless decision to allow her running mate Natasha Armstrong (18B) to lift portions of her 2016 platform for SGA executive vice president and adopt it as Armstrong’s own. Despite the controversy surrounding those actions, we do not believe Singh acted maliciously. As

Jain a Worthy Investment The Wheel’s Editorial Board unanimously endorses Naman Jain (18C) for College Council (CC) vice president for his demonstrated expertise with CC and clearly articulated vision of his future goals.

Currently serving as budget committee chair and last year as assistant vice president of finance, Jain brings a wealth of experience to CC. Because CC is responsible for funding student organizations and events, that role directly influences the undergraduate experience more so than other elected positions. Jain is equipped to withstand and satisfy students’ heightened levels of criticism of CC fund allocation.

In the Wheel debates and interview with the Wheel, Jain displayed an impressive level of knowledge on budgeting procedures and logistics, citing policies such as the 84 percent rule, travel cap, nonessential funding and acquiring supplemental budgets, which will ensure thoroughness and efficacy in pursuing policy changes.

He also spoke about his experience in passing legislation such as the humanitarian bill, Student Experience Fund bill and transition from yearly to semesterly budgets and back again when that change proved unsuccessful.

We applaud Jain’s recognition that legislation “designed to appeal to the majority of students … [allows] the interests of marginalized and minority communities [to] slip through the cracks.”

However, he does not provide concrete examples beyond “safe spaces” to address those disparities. In his interview, Jain proposed an attendancebased system to allocate funds to clubs,

referencing an instance of denying theater groups funds for licensing rights due to insufficient audience sizes. Such a policy is liable to abuse and could exacerbate rather than ameliorate this discrepancy, favoring the largest and most visible campus organizations.

Furthermore, we’re concerned

by Jain’s apparent indifference to the conflict of interest when a CC member concurrently heads an organization funded by CC. Jain himself currently acts as Emory Student Alliance for Health Involvement (SAHI) president and treasurer. Though he points to CC’s system of checks and balances that would supposedly eliminate bias, the Board remains skeptical that there is adequately fair scrutiny of CC loopholes to support this claim.

When asked how he would bolster low levels of student input and engagement with CC, Jain proposed several solutions — holding town halls, moving CC meetings to more accessible locations and assisting organizations in finding alternate avenues for funding. His advocacy for openness and student engagement are admirable, but we question whether Jain has oversimplified a chronic, large-scale issue with simplistic Band-Aid remedies.

Nonetheless, Jain’s indisputably comprehensive familiarity with budget and finance processes renders the Board confident in his ability to serve Emory students’ needs.

We encourage him to follow through on his promises regarding budget amendments and movement toward a more transparent and inclusive CC.

running mates, it is expected that they promote similar ideas.

However, by allowing Armstrong to re-use an old platform, Singh exhibited laziness. As a campus, we should expect more from the ticket which hopes to govern Emory’s SGA in a few weeks’ time. If elected, Singh ought to avoid bureaucratic blunders that delegitimize SGA. As SGA president there is no room for negligence. To govern effectively, Singh must actively work to avoid similar mistakes, whether they are her own or are committed by those in positions below her.

Singh’s opponent, Shah, has demonstrated that he is completely unprepared for the position of SGA president. Shah lacks the experience necessary to draft policy and communicate with administrators, and would not provide effective leadership for the legislature.

He has no experience in university student government, does not understand the structure or role of SGA within the University and has failed to propose a concrete vision for the legislature.

Singh has the proven experience to lead but she must be careful to avoid even the perception of carelessness.

Last year, we unanimously endorsed Singh for her current position. This year, we cautiously endorse her as the most qualified candidate running for SGA president, and hope that her victory will pave the way for a more cautious SGA.

In this year’s election season, Cassidy Schwartz (18C) has risen above the rest of the candidates and distinguished herself as the most qualified candidate running for any position.

The Wheel’s Editorial Board unanimously endorses Schwartz as College Council (CC) president for her impressive policy record and enthusiasm for the student body, which make her suited to take on CC’s top position.

Schwartz served as a CC legislator for her first two years at Emory and currently serves as CC vice president. In her first three years on CC, Schwartz’s achievements included initiatives aimed at destigmatizing mental health and incentivizing clubs to be more sustainable.

At the Wheel debates, Schwartz spoke knowledgeably about issues facing CC, and provided specific, concrete examples of her initiatives. Whether through creating legislation to help all students have a full college experience through her proposed ONE Emory Initiative, or providing more funding for clubs, especially those that represent minorities, we believe that Schwartz is truly committed to improving College students’ lives.

Additionally, we commend her support of increased transparency between CC and Emory students.

Schwartz plans to increase social media presence to inform students on

CC affairs, hold discussion groups and establish regular communication with the Wheel.

While we fully support Schwartz’s platform, her past initiatives have been smaller-scale — for example, the creation of cell phone card holders featuring the Emory Helpline number. Schwartz ought to take on larger initiatives and more ambitious goals as CC president, particularly given that she has proven her competence and capability as a legislator and CC vice president.

Given her three years of CC experience and history of past successes, Schwartz is highly qualified for this position. She has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to her platform through her meticulous campaign website, CassidyForCC.com, where she details her past legislative achievements and outlines concrete positions on seemingly every aspect of student life.

The website is comprehensive, informative and shows Schwartz’s serious commitment to this position.

If Schwartz continues to act with this level of dedication, we expect nothing less than excellence from CC during her term as president. Schwartz has set the standard high for what we should expect from our elected leaders; other candidates should strive to emulate her diligence and resolute approach to student governance.

Armstrong’s Credentials Offset Blunder Natasha Armstrong (18B) is a qualified student leader and a highly competent choice for Student Government Association (SGA) executive vice president.

In her two years as an SGA legislator, Armstrong has left an impact on the student body by proposing, creating and chairing the Committee for Diversity and Equity (CDE) last year.

Through this committee, she tackled issues facing underrepresented groups on campus.

During her term, the committee worked to implement an interfaith prayer space on campus.

This is an example of the important work that was neglected in the confusion of the student government split — work that we are excited to see return under new leadership.

This is the first year that candidates for SGA president and executive vice president have run on a ticket, which attests to the similarity of Armstrong’s and her running mate Gurbani Singh’s (18B) objectives.

Though much has been made of Armstrong’s copying portions of Singh’s own 2016 platform for SGA executive vice president, an issue that arose from the candidates’ decision to share a platform, it is not right to condemn a candidate for one mistake in an otherwise respectable record of service.

Armstrong’s actions were not indic-

ative of malicious intent, but laziness — a quality which we do not believe extends to her previous behavior.

Regardless, we caution Armstrong to act more prudently in the future to avoid further scandal that could undermine future SGA policies and initiatives.

Armstrong’s actions were not indicative of malicious intent, but laziness — a quality which we do not believe extends to her previous behavior.

Regardless, we caution Armstrong ...

Armstrong’s desire to empower underrepresented groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored (NAACP), Black Student Alliance (BSA) and African Student Association (ASA) further exhibits her interest in representing diverse voices.

Armstrong worked with those groups in response to their concerns about inequities in club funding, and she was passionate about pushing for-

ward their initiatives.

We hope that Armstrong soon goes into detail in her own words about her plans to bridge this important gap.

One of Armstrong’s central points in Wheel debates was transportation, specifically student complaints about long wait times for the SafeRide shuttle service.

Armstrong acknowledged that those issues fall outside of SGA’s jurisdiction and wants to pressure the University to make Emory’s SafeRide program more reliable.

This demonstrates an understanding of SGA’s role in the daily lives of students.

Singh and Armstrong have both been in SGA for the past two years, but have not written legislation together. Armstrong is confident that their lack of shared legislation will not hinder their effectiveness as executives.

Despite their partnership, Armstrong’s role as SGA executive vice president should be to challenge Singh, not simply echo Singh’s positions, as she has in their campaign.

Nevertheless, Armstrong strives to represent the diverse voices of Emory students and we endorse her for SGA executive vice president.

Armstrong’s knowledge of student issues, enthusiasm for student government and legislative experience demonstrate that she is qualified for this position.

The endorsements on this page represent the majority opinion of the Wheel’s Editorial Board. The Editorial Board is comprised of Anthony Chau, Annie Cohen, Duncan Cock Foster, Zachary Issenberg, Jennifer Katz, Madeline Lutwyche, Boris Niyonzima and Tarrek Shaban. They held individual interviews with the candidates, scrutinized past experiences and analyzed the Wheel Debates.

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Plagiarism Scandal Piques Student Interest in SGA, Finally Tyler Zelinger

If you pay attention to the wild and wacky world of Emory student politics, you’ve likely heard that Student Government Association (SGA) executive vice presidential candidate Natasha Armstrong (18B) copied large portions of Gurbani Singh’s (18B) platform for the same position from last year. Due to technicalities in the election policy at Emory, the University Elections Board decided to hold a hearing regarding Armstrong’s candidacy.

This hearing never happened, but it would have had little bearing on the outcome of the election. Armstrong is running unopposed, so she’ll almost certainly win the position, as the only other option would be a vote of no confidence.

Movements pushing for votes of no confidence have previously been ineffective. Last year, after the Wheel

endorsed a “no confidence” vote for Molly Zhu’s (17C) candidacy for College Council president, Zhu still secured 80 percent of the vote. When voting for a candidate and voting “no confidence” require the same amount of effort, the average neutral voter will vote for the candidate.

Voting for a stranger feels almost like doing them a favor, which maintains the positive perceptions most people hold of their own ethics, while voting no confidence feels like an insult to the candidate. This entire episode is essentially pointless, as Armstrong and Singh will both win the positions they’re running for.

The future law student in me wants to pick this argument apart and debate whether or not Armstrong’s action actually constitutes an act of plagiarism. Armstrong did, after all, have Singh’s blessing to use her ideas, messages and paragraphs in her own platform and they’re running on the same ticket.

Armstrong’s actions were likely plagiarism nonetheless, as Singh’s permission doesn’t discount the fact that Armstrong intentionally misrepresented Singh’s words and thoughts as her own with the intent of benefiting from them.

Handing in your friend’s old paper and claiming it as your own, even with their permission, will land you in an

Honor Council hearing. The crime of plagiarism is more about the audience being misled as opposed to the person whose work is being used, and I’d say that Armstrong’s use of Singh’s platform was clearly both intentional and misleading due to a lack of accreditation.

However, the important question isn’t whether or not Armstrong technically committed plagiarism.

That doesn’t matter. What confuses me is the complete and total apathy with which students treat these elections. The fact that only one Emory student is willing to run for SGA executive vice president speaks to a perceived lack of agency in the student body. Why? The simple answer is that nobody cares. Last year, of the approximately 14,000 individuals eligible to vote in student government elections, only about 3,000 voted to elect SGA powerhouse, Kappa Sigma brother and campus-dreamboat Max Zoberman (17C) as SGA president.

It’s helpful to consider the issue of voter turnout from a rational action perspective, and compare the costs and benefit of voting. If voter turnout is egregiously low, we can conclude that for the vast majority of people the costs exceed the perceived benefits of voting.

The cost of voting in an Emory

proposed a $10 million cut to CPB’s federal grant established by former U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson.

Such misjudgments encourage the faulty perception that the arts are a nonessential luxury, an extravagant waste of government funds. In reality, the arts play an integral role in public education.

PBS initiatives, such as “Sesame Workshop,” increase access to arts-based educational platforms.

In fact, Sesame Street was one of the first American children’s television shows devised with an educational framework. A 2015 paper from the University of Maryland found that preschoolers were 14 percent less likely to fall behind in school if they viewed Sesame Street broadcasts. Among all participant groups, students from lowincome areas were most likely to demonstrate academic proficiency if they received broadcasts of the show.

Since its founding, PBS has made reaching economically disadvantaged kids its mission, and does so more than any other children’s television network.

Sesame Street also pioneered social

and emotional learning (SEL) programs. According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), SEL programs are grounded in developing self-awareness, self-management, responsible decisionmaking, relationship skills and social awareness. A meta-analysis performed

by CASEL demonstrated that students had a percentile-point increase of 11 in academic achievement after participating in evidence-based SEL programs.

Classroom behavior, manifested in stress-management techniques and student positivity, also improved.

Some budget proponents dismiss CPB as nothing more than elitist propaganda.

However, the agency is an invaluable resource for parents to have at their disposal. Access to PBS’s programming overwhelmingly benefits American youth, who should be Trump’s primary concern when distributing federal funds.

University election is low, only requiring about 45 seconds and an active internet connection. The perceived benefit, then, must be even lower as to be non-existent. Students don’t feel their votes will yield perceivable positive results.

And why should they? The issues tackled by SGA these days are of little interest to the average Emory student.

The organization’s hallmark achievement this year has been an administrative reform — decidedly the least glamorous of all the different types of reform. While practical, and likely necessary, the entire exercise was patently unexciting.

I’m not faulting SGA here. There’s something to be said about the virtues of a passive and unoffensive government, especially given the country’s current state of affairs. On the other hand, however, the mundane nature of the issues tackled by SGA provides an explanation as to why students don’t care who leads it. Even when the organization inadvertently violated its own constitution earlier this year, most students didn’t know or didn’t care; this blunder simply didn’t affect the daily lives of anyone besides the people in the organization who had to scramble to fix it.

If there’s anything to be learned from this election’s almost-scandal, it’s that not even the candidates don’t

feel like they have to try any more.

Whether or not what Armstrong did was plagiarism, it was still inexcusably avoidable, and required only the hour or two to draft an original two-page platform.

If not for the plagiarism allegations, it’s unlikely that people would have even read her platform.

I won’t urge students to place a vote of no confidence, as I don’t think this would help.

Even if Armstrong didn’t care enough to write a new platform, she at least cared enough to put her name on the ballot, which is apparently more than anyone else did. SGA ought to make more of an effort to encourage student involvement in elections and make efforts to debate and pass interesting and salient policy as opposed to arcane and irrelevant administrative measures.

If students were more interested in what SGA was doing, perhaps more of them would run for office. With a healthy dose of competition between viable candidates, the University Elections could begin to resemble a more organic democratic process as opposed to an institutionalized system of landslide victories or unopposed SGA veterans.

Tyler Zelinger is a College senior from Commack, N.Y.

Revisiting Big Cuts for Big Bird Perspectives From a Trystan Loustau

In his recently announced 2018 budget proposal, President Donald J. Trump outlined his plans to eliminate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR) and other member stations. “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again” will prioritize security-related expenditures by increasing the almost $600 billion Pentagon budget, which risks the collapse of those agencies, which serve as cornerstones for educational public media. The proposal reflects a common characteristic of Republican administrations: a tendency to devalue art as a worthy source of federal funding. Former U.S. president George W. Bush advocated to cut CPB funding and former U.S. president Ronald Reagan targeted government subsidies for public broadcasting. Similarly, to address the financial demands of the Vietnam War, former U.S. president Richard Nixon

Trystan Loustau is a high school junior from Jacksonville, Fla.

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Harmonious Canadian Ravi Doshi

Canada is harmonious.

This is something I’ve heard repeatedly from Americans of every race, ethnicity and political leaning. As a dual citizen of Canada and America, I unequivocally agree that Canada is more politically harmonious. Solidarity across political lines in America is non-existent, and groups of people feel betrayed by one another. America can achieve greater harmony if we choose to forge bonds of trust and respect amongst ourselves.

Canada, like America, has great racial and cultural diversity and a history fraught with division. Citizens who felt they were being treated as second-class citizens in the French-speaking province of Quebec tried to force its secession twice, once in 1980 and again in 1995.

Grievances still exist between Canadians who voted for secession, but that hasn’t made fellow citizens disregard or belittle each other. Despite those and other differences, our harmony is fueled by a trust in our mutual desire to make Canada a more perfect country and a respect for our ability to empathize with one another. That trust and respect builds a sense of community among us.

At a bar, I ended up in a discussion this past week with a gentleman in his mid-twenties who had voted for Trump.

I voted for Clinton. The conversation became so heated that I was afraid it would turn into a fist fight. But the longer we kept talking, moving the discussion away from the scandals and sensational stories that encapsulate mainstream media to specific policy points, we discovered that we agreed on many of the challenges America faces. We both acknowledged that we want better for this country and have the right to our narratives being respected; we are both Americans and must share this country.

I encountered much more negativity than I expected. Was it naive of me, a second generation Indian-American, to

engage an inebriated man who voted for Trump and might have believed that I should not be welcome in America? Like many immigrant and minority groups, my community’s sense of security and safety has been severely impacted by Trump’s rhetoric. Shying away from honest face-to-face discussion due to fear that others are incapable of considering our opinions and narratives as legitimate will only entrench the already deep divisions. People on the left and right are actively trying to disown one another, and we will get along only when we build mutual understanding with our fellow Americans of opposing political stripes. For both sides, it’s a matter of engaging those with whom we disagree — real people are not all walking Breitbarters or Young Turks.

This is the first step in hopefully reaching a middle ground on important issues. Every functional democracy needs argument and disagreement. In America, there exists a staunch refusal between individuals to acknowledge, respect or listen to one another. If we aspire to be a more harmonious country, it’s essential we respect that our fellow citizens are not malicious people, possess the ability to understand us and carry a mutual goal for a more prosperous country. Scapegoating and intolerance, especially from the presidential pulpit, have created uneasy suspicion that our fellow citizens could be enemies, or even worse that it is within their rights to commit violent acts based on prejudice.

Maybe I’m naive, but I have faith that trust can be rebuilt. If we don’t believe this country can become more harmonious and inclusive, it never will. Pessimism and sitting on the sidelines will not get us there. Apathy to discourse will do nothing to improve harmony when divisions cut so deep.

It is only when we reconcile with each other and look beyond our differences that we can solve our challenges.

Ravi Doshi is a College junior from Kingston, Ontario.

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Georgia Clark is a College Senior from Lilburn, Ga.

Congress Beware: The Failure of Governance at Emory Automation Inevitable Matthew Ribel One of the most salient issues in the 2016 election was America’s changing manufacturing landscape, which arguably handed Donald Trump the presidency.

However, all the half-truths about “bad trade deals” sending jobs overseas distracted from the real culprit behind the death of the American factory worker — automation. Research suggests that up to 85 percent of all manufacturing jobs lost over the last several decades were lost to technological strides, not globalization. In an interview with Mike Allen of Axios, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s comments on the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) were completely and utterly baffling, particularly in light of the Trump administration’s labor-centric rhetoric.

When asked about AI’s threat to human workers, Mnuchin said, “it’s not even on our radar screen .... [for] 50100 more years.”

The disruptive potential of AI doesn’t just threaten individual livelihoods — it has the power to fundamentally change the structure of western economies. Typically, we only really discuss job automation in the context of minimum wage increases.

Raising wages simply leads to self-checkout lines at the supermarket, making undifferentiated mass labor a thing of the past. While the jury is still out on the veracity of this claim, one premise holds true: machines are coming for your job. This trend will transcend sector or wage.

A study suggests that up to 47 percent of existing U.S. jobs are at risk of machine replacement. Given the current technological trajectory, the West will soon be facing widespread structural unemployment in both blue- and white-collar industries.

We’ve already begun to see the impacts of automation in manufacturing and the service industry.

Increasingly at-risk is the trucking industry, responsible for the employment of 8.7 million Americans. With self-driving auto technology advancing rapidly, 3.5 million drivers will be unemployed, in addition to millions currently relegated to support roles.

When shipping and logistics companies are offered the opportunity to cut both liability and costs immensely, they invariably accept.

In the world of banking, sophisticated trading algorithms already perform tasks once done by Ivy League analysts. Even the most slippery of professionals, the lawyers, may not be able to escape as AI becomes increasingly capable of performing legal research and sourcing. The time to act is now. The U.S. needs proactive planning, and it is for exactly this reason that the federal government must revive the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA).

For over two decades, the OTA was an invaluable branch of the federal government, providing objective and authoritative analysis to policymakers on the impact of scientific and technological advancement. Ultimately, it was deemed an unnecessary government agency by the GOP in 1995 and defunded under Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America.” Since its demise, a massive deficit in technical knowledge plagues Congressional decisionmaking. Future generations can be groomed to deal with change — educational systems can be adapted and new skills taught. What happens to the generation suffering from the initial employment shock? While the OTA can provide guidance to legislators, they cannot actually make change — that requires political will from those in power. Congress must recognize there is a problem, acknowledge it as a bipartisan issue, and then proceed to consider ways to prepare the workforce for change.

Perhaps this comes in the form of federally-funded worker retraining programs, like those taking place in the former coal-mining towns of Appalachia. Perhaps, way down the line, this manifests as a universal basic income.

The fervent denialism over the last two years is beneficial to no one except those seeking electoral clout in the Rust Belt. Lost manufacturing jobs are never coming back, no matter what the president tells you.

When dealing with an impending economic crisis of this magnitude, action cannot be sacrificed for political expedience. There’s no doubt that these are complex problems to solve, but they’re even more difficult when addressed retroactively. Let’s take the lead and start giving them some thought.

Matthew Ribel is a College sophomore from Chantilly Va.

James Crowe

More important than the decision as to whether Emory will take any particular action, from becoming a “sanctuary campus” to the design of its student government, is the question of how it makes those decisions, a question of governance rather than administration. Unlike a for-profit business, universities have a strong tradition of shared governance. I am very concerned that the Emory community — faculty, students and administrators — have lost sight of important deliberative processes that already exist but have fallen into disuse. Returning to these tools is the best solution to pressing challenges Emory currently faces and will face in the future.

Earlier this year, a faculty petition addressed to University President Claire E. Sterk requested she designate the University a “sanctuary campus.” A petition may be an appropriate tool for demonstrating that there is enough support for an idea to merit attention; however, the faculty only submitted a petition to Sterk and then expected her to make a decision. That approach, as opposed to the faculty being directly involved in the decisionmaking process, ignores the faculty’s vast expertise in immigration-related fields and their shared responsibility to the university.

More recently, the University faces difficult questions regarding the future of student government. Since individual students will come and go, the most important decisions are not who happens to hold leadership roles at this very moment. Instead, we need institutions and systems of decision making, both those codified in formal documents like constitutions and bylaws and also informal traditions and norms. What we need is a system of shared governance that brings together faculty, administrators, students, staff and alumni, and through which the University can make decisions.

It would come as a shock to many that such a body already exists. Article V of the University Bylaws provides for a University Senate and states that “Any change in existing policies or the establishment of new policies relating to matters of general University interest may be reviewed by the Senate.”

The section also states that “The decisions of the Senate shall, with the concurrence of the President of the University, be deemed final unless or until the Board of Trustees or its Executive Committee shall take further action.” In fact, the University Senate is the body that in 1969 created student government in its current

form.

Even if the University president disagrees with the Senate, there is an established process allowing the Senate to present its recommendations directly to the Board of Trustees or its Executive Committee to make a final decision.

The Senate includes elected student and faculty members from every school on campus, as well as staff, alumni and senior administrators. The Senate’s membership is appropriate for making important decisions about Emory’s values and its consequent actions.

In practice, the Senate does not regularly review the University’s policies. As such, effectively none of the University’s policies are binding for its own administrators, and policies are increasingly arbitrarily created, rescinded and amended through power that is delegated, re-delegated and re-sub-delegated down the food chain to inexperienced staff with little or no oversight.

These policies are often myopic, exactly because they have not benefited from input from those across the University community.

Unfortunately, the Senate as it existed when I left Emory in 2015 was simply not functional, and the University’s senior administrators have seemingly had to take over decision-making in order for anything to get done. An amendment to the Student Government Association (SGA) Constitution passed during my time at Emory that proposed to solve some of the governance challenges by allowing SGA to amend its constitution at any time, subject to University Senate approval.

Without Senate approval, student government is subject to the threat of arbitrary takeover by various administrators as well as short-sighted decision making by SGA representatives in any given year.

The Senate, however, had no interest in resuming its duties in being a deliberative body and, per the text of the referendum, the amendment self-terminated.

The Senate only meets approximately seven times per year, and its twelve committees often have practically no Senate members and work on unrelated niche projects. As a result, the Senate has no capacity to deliberate on real issues.To my knowledge, the president of the University has not officially concurred with or opposed a Senate decision since 1969. During my two terms in the Senate, faculty senators did not seem to know why they’re there. As covered by the Wheel in 2014 and in 2015, the majority of student members, particularly graduate students, couldn’t be bothered to

show up at all.

This crisis of governance is not an issue of a few bad actors at a few moments.

It is a crisis of failed governance and institutions, as well as a pervasive culture of incentives in higher education that prompts faculty to abdicate their responsibilities in governance and student discipline to a growing, professionalizing class of student affairs administrators.

It is also the same culture that prompts many students, especially current and aspiring Goizueta students, to merely go through the motions of service to the University through elected and appointed positions, accomplishing little in the public interest but much in personal and professional returns.

It is imperative that Emory has robust processes for making informed, well-thought-out decisions, rather than abdicating that responsibility to a few administrators or student leaders. It is equally important that the University maintain a distinction in practice between governance and dayto-day administration.

I encourage the faculty who signed the “sanctuary campus” petition, as well as students who are concerned about designing a system of student government that’s built to last, to make use of the Senate, and for students, faculty, staff and alumni alike to hold their elected representatives accountable.

I also call on the Board of Trustees to strengthen the capacity of the Senate to fulfill its functions, and on Sterk to attend to the Trustees’ direction in Article III, Section one of the University’s Bylaws that she is “charged particularly with responsibility for the internal order and discipline of the University and to this end shall hold all Deans and members of the faculty to the faithful and efficient discharge of their duties.”

James Crowe (12OX, 14C) is now Susan G. Komen Graduate Trainee in Health Disparities at The University of Chicago. He served two terms as University-wide University Senator; sat on half of the Senate’s twelve committees, including its Executive Committee; and spearheaded work that resulted in the Board of Trustees amending the University Bylaws in 2015. He was Chief Justice of the former university-wide Student Government Association from 2014 to 2015.

James Crowe (12 OX, 14C) served two terms as a University Senator, sat on half of the Senate’s twelve committees and was Chief Justice of the former Universitywide SGA from 2014-15.

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GOODRICH C. WHITE LECTURE

An evening with JUNOT DÍAZ Award-winning author Junot Díaz will read from his work and engage the audience in conversation across topics that have impassioned him throughout his career—the immigrant experience, civic sensibility, community, race, justice, equality, and, of course, writing.

The event is free and open to the public, though seating is limited.

A book signing will follow.

Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Díaz is the author of the 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first collection of short stories, Drown (1996), earned him recognition as one of the foremost contemporary practitioners of the art of the short story. His latest collection of stories, This Is How You Lose Her (2012), was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award.

Díaz has received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, he is the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 • 7:30 pm Schwartz Center • Emory University

_________________________ The Goodrich C. White Lecture was created and endowed by the DVS Senior Society of Emory University to honor the legacy of Emory’s fourteenth president, who was a member of the society in the Class of 1908 and served as president from 1942 to 1957.

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FILM

DOOLEY’S WEEK

SPC Looks Bad, Questionably ‘Boujee’

By AdityA PRAkAsh Senior Staff Writer

As a kid, I once clicked on a link advertising a “Free iPhone 4S” and it gave my computer a virus. It was funny back then, but it’s a little less cute when Emory’s entire Student Programming Council (SPC) falls for a scam.

Oh well. At least the memes are good.

Courtesy of Walt Disney PiCtures

The Beast (Daniel Stevens, Left) and Belle (Emma Watson, R ight) share a tender moment in the library of his secluded castle.

Tale Old as Time Gets Tune-Up

By Annie Cohen Editorial Page Editor

Grade: A Beauty and the Beast (2017) is a tale as old as time, packed to its brim with Disney magic. As I walked into the theater, I had no idea I would be witnessing one of the best-executed remakes I had ever seen. The film was captivating, with stunning cinematography.

The colors and camerawork gave it a

Disney dollhouse feel that was visually gorgeous.

In addition to the cinematography, the casting choices are perfect. Emma Watson (Belle), Luke Evans (Gaston), Josh Gadd (LeFou) and Dan Stevens (The Beast / Prince) brought their characters to life, lending new humanity to the beloved cartoons through their acting and cohesiveness as a cast.

The newly added character backstories helped the audience to understand the characters on an empathetic,

CONCERT

Carlton Campaigns for Love at City Winery By nAoMi keusCh-BAkeR Contributing Writer Musicians tend to save their breakthrough single for the end of the night, such as Smashmouth with “All Star,” but singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton pleasantly surprised the audience by beginning her March 19 concert at City Winery with her famous single, “A Thousand Miles.” During the stop on her Liberman tour, Carlton accompanied herself on a grand piano as her longtime musical partner, Skye Steele, provided backup vocals and violin melodies, making the iconic song more stylized than its original form. The audience was mesmerised

by Carlton’s mature voice, and accepted the new rendition. Addressing her new style, Carlton said she noticed her voice mature since her early career.

Her training and development beam through her elegant control of dynamics, pacing and timbre.

Carlton pointed out that her songs tell stories; the evening would not have felt complete without the short anecdotes and politicized statements accompanying the songs. Her always genuine, sometimes sarcastic personality contextualized her songs and made them more relatable for the audience. As bisexual Jewish women from Queens, N.Y. who have moved to the

South, love to sing and play piano, support the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and criticize alternative facts, Carlton and myself have similar perspectives on the subjects of her lyrics.

She shared humorous life lessons, such as, “If your partner tells you they’re going to one city but they end up in a different city, [that’s a] red flag.” Her blatant messages sometimes resulted in light chuckles, but others captivated the audience’s attention with universal truths.Explaining her inspiration for the song “White Houses,” Carlton said that in college, “we build who we are in our years in those dorms,” eliciting nostalgic nods and sentimental smiles from the audience.

The majority of her concert included songs from Liberman, an homage to her grandfather. He painted the same woman sitting in three positions in a classical style but used surreal colors, which influenced the album. A replica of the painting served as a backdrop for the stage and lights playfully manipulated the colors. Similar to her grandfather’s art, Carlton’s music uses a palette of sounds that encourages experimentation. She and Steele used technology to improvise, layering play-

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human level.

For example, the prince’s backstory allowed the audience to understand grew up to be so cruel, which ultimately made it easier to forgive such cruelty later on in the movie.

Those additions could have been disastrous simply by trying to add too much, but Disney handled them tactfully and gave us an understanding of these characters in a way the animated

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Replace the iPhone with Migos and you have more or less summed up the last 24 hours for the Emory community.

If you’ve been living under a rock or alternatively Complex for the past two weeks, Migos are an Atlanta-grown hip-hop group who have skyrocketed to international fame, especially after the release of “Bad and Boujee,” a banger of such proportions it has been known to bring Wheel contributors nearly to tears.

I’ll be honest: I don’t know much about SPC’s role in the mix-up. But you can’t know everything — like how a history major probably doesn’t know much about physical chemistry, and SPC doesn’t seem to know much about finance management. Despite my unfamiliarity, even I can say that falling for this type of a scam seems

as ignorant as accounting majors pretending they have a passion for their subject.

The letter SPC posted about it makes it worse, particularly when they say they “received news” that they were scammed.

Who tells you that you’ve been robbed?

I’ll admit, as annoying as these scammers have been, at the very least they had the unprecedented courtesy to send a glossy postcard from their vacation in the Bahamas saying, “Sorry, we scammed you.”

Emory doesn’t have a lot of spirit.

Some of us raised our eyebrows when the Emory debate team beat Harvard, while others took a break from their Adderall-fuelled library sessions to smirk when we made the Top 20. SPC’s Facebook artist announcement video, which has been deleted, actually excited people, a rare feeling reserved for the days before a holiday.

Here we were as a student body, eagerly awaiting the day where we could loudly belt the words to “Bad and Boujee.” The disappointing feelings caused by this incident have left the student body feeling empty, although perhaps they are not quite as empty as SPC’s funds.

Oh well. At least the memes are good.

— Contact Aditya Prakash at aditya.prakash@emory.edu

INTERVIEW

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Spud (Ewen Bremner, Left), Renton (Ewan McGregor, MiddLe Left), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller, MiddLe R ight) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle, R ight) engage in the film’s titular activity.

‘T2 Trainspotting’ Cast Talk Sequel

By RAshikA VeRMA Contributing Writer Twenty years ago, Trainspotting captured audiences with a portrait of drugs and depravity in Edinburgh, Scotland, that was both brutal and intensely visceral. The film follows four maladjusted adolescents as they throw moderation to the wind and

dive headfirst into drugs, sex and even toilet bowls. T2 Trainspotting reunites the men, now in their mid-40s, who are struggling to come to grips with their fading youth and the consequences of a prodigal past.

Sequels are a tricky business, and nobody working on T2 Trainspotting knows that better than director Danny Boyle. “There’s an onus on you when

you return to something,” he told The Emory Wheel in a conference call.

That duty is especially important now, as two decades divide the hit first film from its successor. But T2 Trainspotting is more than a sequel.

It takes audiences back to where we left the anti-heroes, but stands on its

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VIDEO GAMES

New ‘Zelda’ is a Breath of Fresh Air

By AdityA PRAkAsh

to No Man’s Sky, all of the different things to do in Breath of the Wild feel unique.

The gameplay’s nonlinear nature As a skinny little boy, I first ventured into the land of Hyrule while means you can go about your advenplaying The Minish Cap. I was intro- ture in any way you like. If you prefer duced to a simple and colorful world to take the scenic route, Shrine puzzles filled with quirky characters, clever and side quests entertain you before puzzles and hidden secrets. More than you advance to the main story. If you anything, the game presented the are a deranged speedrunner, then feel indescribable spirit of adventure that free to attempt the final boss within I would find in all subsequent titles your first hour of gameplay. No two in the franchise. As I lined up outside Breath of the Wild experiences will the Nintendo World Store in New York ever be the same.

The world’s intricate design is City waiting to buy Breath of the Wild after its March 3 release, I kept my paired with perfectly nuanced game fingers crossed and hoped it would live mechanics. Although past Zelda games have been a bit hackup to the quality of its and-slash, Breath of predecessors. Breath of the Wild has not only ‘Breath of the Wild’ the Wild is the first game in the series to successfully lived up to ... has also left me introduce a durabilall of its lofty expectations, but it has also even more spellbound ity mechanic that is similar to the likes somehow left me even than I could have of Minecraft. Every more spellbound than I anticipated. weapon, be it a humcould have anticipated. ble stick or mighty With so much hype Thunderblade, surrounding it, Breath breaks after a cerof the Wild had huge shoes to fill — on one hand, it had tain number of uses, which makes you to remain true to its Zelda roots and think twice about blindly running into maintain previous games’ witty charm an enemy base, in no small part due and gorgeous world designs. On the to the fact that enemies are signifiother, it had to change up its standard cantly stronger than in the past. The formula to appeal to both veterans and nonlinear gameplay means that if you wind up on the wrong side of Hyrule newcomers alike.

The sheer size of the overworld is at night, there is nothing stopping a the most advertised feature. Recently, cyclops from killing you in one hit.

Durability, food gathering and we have been greeted by a slew of sandbox games that formulated large, cooking make resource allocation and empty worlds with only an illusion- planning more important than in preary vastness (looking at you, Far Cry vious iterations of the game. It is also Primal). Breath of the Wild’s world, important to note that this is not only while expansive, at no point feels the most gorgeous Zelda game, but empty. Every nook and cranny of one of the most beautiful games I have this incarnation of Hyrule is packed ever played. Forgoing a more realistic with secrets, be it a rare weapon in a artstyle for en plein air cel-shading, Bokoblin base camp or a hidden foun- Breath of the Wild’s graphics constitain that houses a Great Fairy. Rather than offer similar, repetitive tasks akin See viDEo, Page 11

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Ensemble Lives Up to Expecations in Remake Continued from Page 9 version didn’t.

Whether it is Gaston reminiscing about the glory of war, the Beast losing his mother and being raised by a cruel father or Belle losing her mother to the plague, the audience is invited into the hearts and minds of those characters.

We now understand their motivations, and what shapes them to behave the way they do, an improvement from the otherwise vague cartoon.

This added character development allows these beloved characters to fit right into 2017. As the animated film was released in 1991, the characters needed an update. Belle is a fiercely independent role model, and now invents and teaches in addition to simply loving reading. Taking action and proving herself as a strong-willed woman with depth gives Belle the boost she needed to be a perfect role model.

The Beast is better portrayed in the new remake as well. The film opens with new backstory about the prince’s curse. Throughout the film, the Beast is all over the place emotionally; he is funny, cruel, sweet, brooding and so many contradictions at once.

From his exasperation at Belle’s love of Romeo and Juliet to his vicious standoff with the wolves, he is emotionally diverse. The Beast’s face is highly expressive. Thanks to the new technology Disney used, he really comes to life. Through funny dialogue about books and Belle’s town, the audience sees someone with whom Belle could truly fall in love for his personality, rather than just a horned beast who learns how to hold a bird and eat oatmeal like a civilized human.

Gaston is transformed into a much deeper character in this movie. When we first meet him, he is so sweet, so genuine — I didn’t know why Belle wouldn’t marry him.

He seems to truly love Belle and fails to lead other girls on, in a series of actions that differ greatly from his old

playboy image. Only later does Gaston reveal the murderous, crazed lunatic that he really is. I only wish we had seen that side of Gaston earlier, as he started off too likeable and made Belle seem mean in her treatment of such a seemingly sweet guy by refusing to listen to him and shunning all conversation with him.

Initially, I was concerned about the soundtrack of the film. When A-listers are chosen for a musical, they are usually not selected for their singing abilities. Once the music started, however, my worries vanished.

Former West End star Evans’ deep voice is masculine and beautiful, perfect for Gaston. Gadd, of course, is a Broadway star and shone as only he could in the role of LeFou. Stevens, too, sang well, as did the rest of the cast including Emma Thompson (Mrs. Potts), Ewan McGregor (Lumiere) and Ian McKellan (Cogsworth).

Watson, unfortunately, was the only one whose voice wasn’t up to par. She sings without sustaining the notes and phrases, which didn’t suit the style of the music. When she holds notes, she sounds much better.

There are also several new songs which, while not memorable, complemented the famous original soundtrack. “Evermore,” sung by the Beast, gives off an almost Les Miserables feel with its tune and subject matter, and due to the precarious camerawork that mirrors Russell Crowe singing “Stars.”

This movie is more violent than expected, considering it is a movie primarily meant for children. Gaston brutally killing Beast is over the top, and while I thought it was strong for character development and plot, I would have been traumatized watching that scene as a child. On the other hand, the movie knew how to laugh at itself.

From LeFou calling out his own illiteracy to making a subtle joke about France loving guillotines, both children and adults had several jokes to

enjoy.

There are obvious issues with beastiality from the love between Beast and Belle. Stockholm syndrome appears, too, when Belle falls in love with her captor. Stockholm syndrome wasn’t as prominent in this version, due to the characterization of Beast as a sweet, caring guy who wants to make Belle happy, rather than a cruel, manipulative warden.

As for beastiality, however, there was clear sexual tension between Belle and Beast.

The new technology makes the Beast look like nothing more than a handsome, buff guy who happens to be really hairy and horny. His developed human mind gives him a lovable personality, but at the end of the day he is physically an animal: tail, fangs, paws and all. In addition, LeFou is openly gay. That change has, ridiculously, received some backlash from conservative voices. LeFou is perfect.

His love for Gaston explains exactly why he follows him around and deals with how mean Gaston is.

By the end of the film, LeFou ends up with another man in what is ultimately one of the cutest relationships of the entire movie. Watching LeFou realize his own self worth was inspiring. His epiphany that he is better than Gaston and that he is deserving of somebody who loves him is the most relatable and human aspect of the entire movie because many people have gone through similar relationships. Children everywhere should be thrilled to have Lefou as a role model.

Disney truly excelled with this movie. The cinematography and characterization of the animated classic is perfect, and I wholeheartedly recommend seeing this movie. Just as Beast falls in love with Belle, it is easy to fall in love with this movie. Disney has a new classic, and this tale has surely stood the test of time.

— Contact Annie Cohen at annie.cohen@emory.edu

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Actors Talk Returning to Roles, Pains of Aging Continued from Page 9 own as a wonderfully dark meditation on friendship and the passage of time.

The Emory Wheel and other media outlets spoke to stars Ewan McGregor(Mark Renton), Jonny Lee Miller (Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson), Ewen Bremner (Daniel “Spud” Murphy) and director Danny Boyle over the phone about T2 Trainspotting. which will be released in Atlanta March 24.

This is an edited transcript.

Jeff niesel, The Cleveland Scene: I was wondering if you could start by talking about what prompted you to revisit Trainspotting after 20 years.

Danny Boyle: We tried 10 years ago when there was an obvious prompt because Irvine Welsh published a book, Porno, which was a sequel to his original novel, Trainspotting, and so we had a go at it, and it was not very good.

I’m sure it was fine because it was [the same screenwriter], John Hodge and me working on it, but I didn’t even bother sending it to the actors because [I] didn’t feel there was a real reason to do it. If you’re going to update it you’ve got to have a reason.

And [10 years ago], the actors didn’t feel any differently; they didn’t look any different. So we met in Edinburgh two years ago — again, John Hodge, the screenwriter, Irvine Welsh the writer, the two producers and me — and we sat down. And what emerged was more personal and gave us a reason to make the film: it becomes not just a sequel, but it has its own right to exist. [It marks] the passage of time, and especially masculine behavior over time.

The other film is a great celebration of a certain period of your life through the most extreme prism you can imagine: these junkies in Edinburgh, and then obviously the update is when they’re 46 and they’re f**ked, as Renton says.

Jason Gorber, Filmfest: I’m wondering if as performers you can [talk] about the surrealism of revisiting a character all these years later, and also how it felt on set to make sure that you weren’t just making a sequel, but also making a reflection upon sequels in general.

Ewen Bremner: Age is cruel, and you don’t realize that until you get to

this point in your life. In the first film we were full of exuberance and potency, and we thought we were invincible.

And it took us 20 years to realize that we’re just running on the spot and time is flying by.

So, when Danny asked us to come back together and find out who these guys were after 20 years, we had an opportunity that is unparalleled, that never comes along for actors, to think of a character 20 years later and to run with it.

Rashika verma, The Emory Wheel: What was it like coming together as people after all of these years? You have all had very different journeys in film and theatre over the past several years, so how did that affect your group dynamic this time around?

Ewan McGregor: I hadn’t seen Jonny [Lee Miller] for maybe 15 years.

And I hadn’t seen [Robert Carlyle] since the premiere of Trainspotting in Scotland.

Ewen and I, this was our fifth movie together, so we’ve worked with each other over the years. So, we’re getting back together again and our relationships were founded working on Trainspotting, and I think this idea that we were all f**ked up all the time and it was a party all the time, but it wasn’t. We had a short space of time to make that movie; I think we shot it in seven weeks, six weeks and we worked really hard on it, and we were also all aware that we were doing something really special and important, and so we were giving it our all.

And to come back together and find each other again under the same conditions with the same responsibility for this film was just fantastic, and it just felt like coming home. And it wasn’t until the very end, and quite late on in the shooting [for T2 Trainspotting], where the four of us were actually on set at the same time, and that was extra special.

Jeff Mitchell, Phoenix Film Festival: Thinking about how the first film ends and the second one begins, the words “friendship” and “betrayal” came to mind. And I read this quote about friendship and betrayal and it’s simply stated: “Apology accepted, trust denied.” But thinking about Spud and Simon, I think they felt apology denied, but trust accepted. So, do you think that’s right, and do you think

Video Game is a Must Have for 2017 Continued from Page 9 tute a work of art not unlike a Studio Ghibli film. Within the first few minutes of playing, you look at the land of Hyrule from atop a cliff as Link, the legendary main character throughout the entire franchise, appreciating everything’s minute details, even the blades of grass.

At times, I would slow down my journey just to take in the sheer beauty of the remade Hyrule, highlighted further by a minimalist, piano-heavy soundtrack with a hypnotizing charm that allowed me to fully immerse myself in the world.

The sound not only shines in the music, but also in the new element of voice acting, which gives the player an emotional investment in the plot

nonexistent to this extent in previous titles. The choked-up voice of Zelda in one cutscene almost moved me to tears, whereas the arrogant lecturing of Revali in another cutscene did an excellent job of infuriating me.

Characterizing this game as merely a sum of impressive technical elements does not do it justice. More than anything, Breath of the Wild exudes an adventurous spirit that reminds me of the first time I ever played a video game; I was amazed by the even simplest of the myriad elements it presented.

Whether you’re a veteran gamer or a newcomer, I implore you to get yours hands on this masterpiece.

— Contact Aditya Prakash at aditya.prakash@emory.edu

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Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor, Left) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle, R ight) traverse the toilets of a Scottish nightclub. that’s because they began their friendships as kids, so trust accepted is just inherently there?

DB: Well, friendship’s a very powerful thing that none of us are really in control of; it takes over your life in a way that you can’t anticipate. And Irvine Welsh said that the first film was about the power of friendship and how it’s intoxicating and overwhelming and is a real hit in the vein. But ultimately, to be part of this friendship group, it crushes your individuality, and so the individual, which is Renton in the first story, he has to break free of the crushing conformity of the group.

But the second film has the individual coming back into the fold because to survive out in the wilderness is just as crushing as it is to survive in the group, so the individual comes back into the fold to try to find succor in this difficult part of his life.

Madison Rutherford, College Times: The music in the original Trainspotting was seminal and very evocative, very representative of that era and that culture. Danny, [can] you talk about the score of the movie and the concept behind it now, two decades later?

DB: One of the key questions everybody asks, of course, at the beginning when you start this, they just assume the soundtrack will be really good, so there are a lot of expectations. But we were very lucky on the first film because there was a huge variety of choices and it was a great time and all that kind of stuff, but we found what we call the heartbeat of the film was this Underworld album, Dubnobasswithmyheadman. And I

remember I said to John [Hodge] and Andrew [Macdonald], the screenwriter and the producer, that this would be the heartbeat of the film. And I remember them being a bit alarmed about that because they thought it was going to be just plastered with Underworld music, which was very heavy. [I] find some way in the musical choice that represents the film, and of course we found “Born Slippy,” which wasn’t on that album and it ended the film.

Coming to do the new one you want to try and find that equivalent heartbeat, and we found this band, Young Fathers, who come from the same estates around Edinburgh that Irvine Welsh came from, and their stuff just fits in the film.

Dillon Thompson, Red & Black News: What are some of the lessons in both the new movie and the old that are about those respective periods of your life, and about realizing … some of the things that come with being [an] adult in the real world?

Jonny Lee Miller: I think the monologue in the first movie, and as Danny has been saying today and I think it’s really true, [is] that the movie’s really a lot about masculinity.

And there’s that confidence and that fearlessness which permeates the first movie and it’s really summed up in the voiceover, especially in the end speech there, ‘this is what I’m going to do, this is who I am, this is who I’m going to be,’ and it’s directed at the audience.

It’s an assault on the audience, you know, a confident boast.

That falls away later in life, and what are you left with — you reflect

more on it. So, the second film really reflects that very well about your attitude, your confidence maybe disappears a little bit. It’s not [just] your confidence it’s your brash attitude to life. You don’t feel invincible anymore.

Your mortality is more evident to you, perhaps. owen Baldner, State Press: When you guys were creating the movie what were you hoping audiences will take away?

DB: You hope people recognize it as honest. Whatever the circumstances that you’re portraying, however extreme the story. [And] you find this [by] working with good actors.

They won’t let you do anything that feels dishonest.

It’s a weird filter they have. An actor’s filter is their safeguard of the quality of their work and it has to be honest, and especially doing a film like this, which comes after a first film which was such a hit and such a celebration of such extremes, [they] won’t let you just repeat [what’s been done before] because they’re now in their mid-40s and it’s a different landscape for them.

They don’t have all the answers.

[Miller] was just saying about [how you think] you’ve got all the answers when you’re in your early 20s, and you mock and sneer about the whole thing really.

And that’s expected and welcomed actually as you step out of childhood; you’re allowed that, [but] not when [you’re] in your mid-40s.

— Contact Rashika Verma at rashika.verma@emory.edu

Artist Walks the Extra Mile for Activism Continued from Page 9 back and live music and creating a chorus of her own sustained echoes while she sang. The audience knew they were witnessing a unique artistic experience, which added excitement to the spectacle. Carlton joked that every night the duo hopes their sounds come together. At this performance, the coherent layering successfully contributed to the music’s futuristic quality.

In addition to Carlton’s self expression through music, her acknowledgement of social issues powerfully connected fantastical music to reality. Part of an artist’s duty is to bring awareness to injustice, but advocating for change is more important. Carlton dedicated her song “Who’s To Say?” to the “LGBTQ+” community and another song, “Marching Line,” to families affected by the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.

Carlton’s dedication to social justice

further showed that her music is not just about herself but that she compassionately empathizes with those in pain.

She employs her role as a musician to encourage others to spread love. Carlton talked freely about her personal life, her baby and husband.

The candid descriptions of her family made the audience feel like her equal, not just an idol to adore. Ironically, her encore performance included “I Don’t Want To Be A Bride.” At first the audience was concerned because she has a loving relationship with her husband, but she clarified that a loving relationship is real whether it is officiated or not.

The beautiful ode to love was followed by a feel-good cover of Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz,” which Carlton and artist Tristen, who opened for Carlton, sang a capella together.

This felt out of place, as they sang it in a country style, but the audience ate

it up and sang along. The two singers were having fun on stage, smiling and dancing together. It was the only song for which Carlton did not sit at the piano; she instead stood closer to the audience, singing into a microphone.

Vanessa Carlton proved that she is not the product of a label; she expresses herself in unusual musical structures.

She not only breaks away from the typical pop-style mold, but she succeeds. Carlton’s commitment extends beyond her musical and personal life to serving the public. A percentage of all proceeds from merchandise on sale at the concert was donated to the American Civil Liberties Union, and if I wasn’t going to buy a T-shirt before, that promise to donate convinced me. Artists are leaders and some, like Carlton, walk the extra thousand miles to work for justice.

— Contact Naomi K.B. at nkeusc2@emory.edu

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 | Asst. Emory Life Editor: Niraj Naik (niraj.naik@emory.edu)

KOREA WEEK

TRANSPORTATION

Master the Lines, You’ll be Fine A Student’s Manual to Riding MARTA

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tudents and faculty hold a panel discussion about the installation of a “comfort women” memorial in Atlanta as part of Emory’s Korea Week yesterday at the Candler School of Theology’s Rita Anne Rollins Building.

FOOD

Over Easy: My Coffee Shop

By Karissa DzuriK Senior Staff Writer

Emory University houses everyone from up-and-coming scientists to undergraduate entrepreneurs.

However, these same minds sometimes fail to understand Atlanta’s local transportation option: MARTA. Some students complain that MARTA is not as direct as Uber or Lyft, and that it takes longer to traverse metropolitan Atlanta via MARTA than by car. I have ridden the buses and trains of MARTA for longer than I can remember and can assert that MARTA trips are not just more time efficient than ridesharing, but also cheaper — one-way tickets cost a mere $2.50. Here’s a list of MARTA hacks to make your next ride as efficient as possible.

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Most Atlanta foodies feel burnt out at one point or another. They become tired of tasting yet another fruity pour over at the newest Midtown coffee shop, which likely features exposed brick walls and teems with scarf-wearing hipsters eating pumpkin bread with a fork.

On the other hand, trying to venture outside the staple options for Atlanta brunch spots can be intimidating.

It comes with the uncertainty of blindly visiting a new place, and the type-A part of me wants a recommendation from a trusted friend, or at least a four-star Yelp review.

Nevertheless, that point of frustration is exactly where I found myself one morning scrolling through countless reviews and Zagat Top Brunch articles, when I finally stumbled upon My Coffee Shop @ East Lake.

With several great reviews,it looked quaint and like a true, local gem.

I’m pretty unfamiliar with the East Lake area, the home of My Coffee Shop, but according to the East Lake Foundation website, it is one of Atlanta’s most historic neighborhoods.

It is mainly residential and featuring a bunch of trendy, family- friendly homes.

It is about 4.5 miles away from Emory and easy to get to.

My Coffee Shop is open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Their menu boasts a wide variety of breakfast items served all day and also features a selection of sandwiches for lunch. In my never-ending quest for the perfect piece of French toast, I ordered their banana nut bread French toast.

The meal included two slices topped with bananas, powdered sugar and cinnamon, and was drizzled with maple syrup.

In addition to my meal, I ordered a basil lemonade, My Coffee Shop’s signature drink.

This drink is the first thing you’ll see on their website and is also displayed in a large mural on one of their

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The banana nut bread French toast at My Coffee Place lacks the fluffiness characteristic of a classic French toast dish. interior walls.

Needless to say, there was a lot of hype surrounding this beverage.

Despite the fact that my order was already a strange combination, the food proved to be no less odd.

As promising as the banana nut bread French toast may sound, the meal fell flat — literally. I have come to expect a fluffy consistency from French toast.

Although the dish can typically be fairly dense, My Coffee Shop’s version was just disappointing. It lacked flavor and had the consistency of soggy banana bread.

It was as if it had not been cooked long enough for the egg-soaked bread to be more than just that.

In hindsight, maybe taking a food like banana bread and trying to make French toast out of it was not the best idea.

I have tried many versions of French toast in the Atlanta area, but this one was by far the worst.

The basil lemonade did partially redeem My Coffee Shop from their pitiful attempt at a twist on a classic breakfast food.

One thing I will note is that the name of the drink is deceiving — it isn’t really lemonade; it has the consistency similar to that of a smoothie.

It is heavy on the basil with a hint of lemon (and a lot of sugar) to make it

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refreshing and crisp.

This overpriced slushy, however, is not enough to bring me back to My Coffee Shop anytime soon.

I am not sure this concoction is what they really want to hang their hat on, but after tasting their French toast, maybe it really is their best item.

It’s worth noting My Coffee Shop looked exactly like it does on the website. Decorated like the inside of a home, it felt like I had just stepped into a friend’s kitchen.

The staff greeted me and told me to sit anywhere I liked.

Although I arrived on a weekday, the bar was still fairly populated with lunch-breakers on laptops and regulars chatting with the wait staff.

Overall, I would recommend My Coffee Shop for a cheap cup of coffee and free Wi-Fi if you are dying to get off campus and visit a hole-in-the-wall coffee shop.

If you are looking for a solid brunch location to take company or a significant other, however, this coffee shop is not the place to go.

— Contact Karissa Dzurik at karissa.dzurik@emory.edu

To begin your MARTA studies, it is essential to understand how the system is laid out. MARTA makes use of a north-south line and an east-west line to connect the neighborhoods of Atlanta by rail. The Red and Gold lines travel up from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to the northern suburbs of Atlanta. This can save you up to $25 on an Uber coming from Emory (and from potentially awkward rides with strangers you met on Facebook groups). The Blue and Green lines connect eastern and western suburbs to downtown Atlanta. transFers While the train network does not directly serve popular Georgia destinations like Six Flags, Stone Mountain or even Emory University, those venues (and any other address in Atlanta) are easily accessible through MARTA’s bus system.

Like the friend who brings you Chipotle, the bus system helps you out when you need it the most.

Included with every ride are four free transfers which can be used in a three-hour period for all of your complex travelling needs.

You can take advantage of this feature by designing a trip that incorporates several bus routes and a subway ride to complete a round-trip for a mere one-way price.

Keep in mind, however, that transfers cannot be used to ride the same bus or subway line more than once.

Points For Five Points If you’re traveling by train, you’ll likely transfer at the Five Points station, MARTA’s main hub (not to be confused with Little Five Points).

Notwithstanding its constant influx of trains, Five Points is just as hackable as its other stations.

If you are traveling east or west, be aware that the Green line trains are only two cars long.

When the trains arrive, a horde of

people rush to the center of the platform, but you can beat them to it by waiting there from the start.

Even with the best planning, it’s still possible to wind up on the wrong side of the Five Points station (though I would argue that every side of the Five Points station is the wrong side).

If that happens, cut through the train going the opposite direction to get to the island platform. staying connecteD If you need to charge your phone and you’re on a train with blue seats, look underneath the seats by the doors for a power outlet.

It’s worth checking to see if your bus has Wi-Fi, as well.

Armed with those two prongs of the millennial trident, you will be able to deluge your Snapchat story with hackneyed photos of the Atlanta skyline.

When traveling west into downtown, sit on the right side of the train for the best view and maximum Instagram likes. getting to the airPort This trek can be extremely timeconsuming and expensive if you don’t plan ahead. With a little preparation, however, the journey can be completed significantly faster and cheaper than the average Uber to the airport. Try to board the first car on the southbound train and sit toward the ends of the train car. That way, when you exit the train at the Airport station, you’re close to the escalator that leads into the domestic terminal, escaping the inevitable bottleneck when some Georgia Tech student’s suitcase gets stuck. Furthermore, taking MARTA saves you time in the airport terminal, as both Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines provide check-in kiosks adjacent to the station, eliminating the need to wait in the main check-in lines.

Upon returning to Atlanta, board the middle cars, as those will usually position you closest to the escalator when you exit the train at your destination or when transferring. conclusion Although MARTA is perhaps not as robust as the metro systems of New York or Washington, D.C., it unassumingly serves as the Emory student’s liaison to the greater Atlanta area.

Riding MARTA is like playing a game of chess: one must be aware of their position at all times and think several steps ahead, but with a little planning and some insider tips anyone can master this game of transportation.

By learning the station map, arming yourself with a Breezecard and finding your own timesavers, you too will master the “ART” of MARTA.

— Contact Mitchell Friedman at mitchell.friedman@emory.edu

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thing else you’re doing, you have to find in it something you like, if you really want to be successful at it.”

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“I have all the things that I really need,” Daniel said. “I try to make every day the best I can, [because] I think this is my calling in life, to be here.”

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introductory philosophy class and knowing the name of an existen-­ tialist philosopher. What did you do, Sparknotes Fear and Trem-­ bling or something?

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your worth in any given livelihood.

Yours sincerely, Doolino

— Contact Monica Lefton at monica.j.lefton@emory.edu

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He really doesn’t like sharing every decision you have — it is food, but I was super hungry so Iyou ate choosing what constraints both of them and I’m not going to lie, want to put into your life. Like it or they tasted a little strange. hate it, that is how you maximize I decided to watch a bit of television, and after about 45 minutes I began to get some weird headaches. I also got hungrier. I went back into his drawer and saw a few mushrooms lying around with some oregano, so in a ravenous fit I gobbled down those as well. That’s when the things started to get a bit fuzzy.

Out of nowhere, this portal appeared in my door and a hooded figure grabbed me by the hand, pulling me inside his magical world.

There I saw a wonderful land: seas of unlimited Sriracha, pools of perfectly crisp pizza and cushions of comfortably soft chicken tenders.

What stood out to me was the music of this wondrous world, a soft piano score juxtaposed by a loud, commanding and bellowing voice shouting “tenders!” in intervals. The voice sounded familiar, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but after hearing the voice I felt safe.

The trance suddenly ended, and there I was in my bed at about 3 p.m. the next day, woken up by the furious, relentless sobbing of my roommate.

I don’t understand the significance of my experience. Any thoughts?

From A Bad Shroomate Dear Shroomate, Every week whenever I think the questions can’t get any weirder, some idiot has to write in a question that proves me wrong.

I cannot say that I am a qualified therapist but at the very least you don’t need to wait four months to use my services. My rudimentary understanding of Sigmund Freud makes me think that perhaps your lucid dream is a metaphor for your deep longing for the old WoodREC. There is nothing I can do about that. The free market has reared its ugly head at Emory, taking away the school provided cafe we know and love.

As long as those beautiful flatbreads live on in your heart, then we will always have those glorious memories of the Fall 2016 semester.

From Doolino Dear Doolino, I’m a passionate finance major fascinated by investment banking but I have to take a stupid business ethics class to fulfill a writing requirement.

I got super bored in that class and found your email by stalking your

For your day-­to-­day qualms and minor life crises, send anonymous questions to doolino.emory@ gmail.com.

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The Emory area is home to a variety of grocery stores, some of which are depicted above.

Those grocery stores not only differ in location, shopping experiences and also offer organic goods at a range of prices.

You’ve Got Kale: ATL Grocery Guide By liwen Xu Contributing Writer

LinkedIn. I want to ask you a few questions. Do you really have a “limited working proficiency” in Afrikaans, Chinese and Swedish? I also noticed that your profile says that you are the editor-in-chief for The Emory Wheel.

Is that true or did you lie about that to impress potential employers? I also could not help but notice that you claimed to have skills in “teamwork and Microsoft Word,” yet have no endorsements for any of these. Did you seriously think you would look impressive to companies by listing such vague and simple soft skills or did you list them down just to please your own ego?

Do answer at your leisure! I can’t wait to hear back from you.

Sincerely, Show Me How You Network-work-work-work-work Dear Network, First of all, isn’t “business ethics” a bit of an oxymoron?

Baie geluk vir die vertaling van hierdie, leser. That means “I have full proficiency in the language” in Afrikaans, which you would know if you actually bothered to complete the Duolingo course. Also, regarding the editor-in-chief thing, it isn’t exactly “lying.” It’s just a tiny bit of exaggeration, a concept that shouldn’t be too foreign to you if you hope to actually succeed in the world of business. If I wanted to lie I would say something really ridiculous like that I have a recommendation letter from Barack Obama, or that Migos is coming to Emory.

Regarding your criticism of my teamwork skills, the number of my group projects that failed is extremely low, even lower than the average lifespan of an investment banker. And you may scoff at my Microsoft Word skills, but I’ll be the one laughing when my beautiful WordArt designs are adopted by my future employer.

Anyways, you poke fun at me for lying on my LinkedIn. At least I’m not lying to myself by pretending that I actually have a “passion” for finance.

Burn.

From Doolino For your day-to-day qualms and minor life crises, send anonymous questions to doolino.emory@gmail. com.

After a long Sunday afternoon of hitting the books, you’re too tired to make your way to the Dobbs University Center (DUC) for dinner.

You open your mini fridge slowly, searching to stifle the hunger pangs in your stomach and see a cup of yogurt, some leftover pickles and the cream cheese you stole from Goizueta Business School’s Tuesday morning bagel days. To avoid this all-toofamiliar lacking fridge, and in light of Sprouts Farmers Market’s grand opening on North Decatur Road, here is a guide to the grocery shops near Emory.

dried fruit and nuts, as well as candy and chocolate. Those bulk bins are self-serve — just grab a plastic film bag and scoop as much as you’d like to purchase. There is also a working deli and aisles for personal care, such as dry shampoo.

Pro tiP: Sprouts’ coupon deals overlap on Wednesdays, meaning that coupons from the last week and the current week can be used at the same time, so customers can get double the deals.

Price: The grocery store is a little pricier than Publix, but it’s not too bad either. You’ll likely pay around $20 to $30 for a bag of groceries.

PuBliX Every weekday night, Emory’s C Publix shuttle takes students to and from Decatur’s local Publix.

Upon entering the brightly-lit grocery store, customers may happen upon Publix’s fresh baked goods, or alternative “bougie” food choices, such as kale chips or pasta chips. There is a variety of both traditional convenience store goods, such as Oreos and Lay’s, and healthy, hearty options, such as Popcornopolis’ Zebra popcorn (white and dark chocolate kettle corn, yum) and Justin’s Naked Almond Butter.

There’s also an aisle or two of fresh produce, as well as eggs, dairy and related fresh options. Sections for body care and personal health split the fresh produce and prepackaged goods, along with miscellaneous items such as greeting cards. Additionally, Publix’s iconic subs are found around the bakery area, where other cakes, bagels and muffins are sold.

Price: Publix isn’t too expensive, taking the second cheapest on this list. A bag of groceries here may cost between $10 and $20. sProuts A Sprouts store just opened in Decatur, and it’s popping. When shoppers walk in, they’ll see shelves upon shelves of fresh, organic food. Sprouts is indeed an indoor farmer’s market.

The majority of the store contains fresh produce, and displays a variety of fruits and veggies that one may find at their local supermarket, except with an emphasis on natural, organic and health-conscious products.

Sprouts’ specialty is its bulk bins, which hold large quantities of raw ingredients such as lentils, soy protein isolate (protein shake, anyone?),

University students, both because of its convenience and variety.

Earth Fare carries several specialty goods, from homemade soap to vegan ravioli.

Furthermore, according to Yelp reviews from local vegans, the establishment carries a wide variety of nonGMO and organic products.

Earth Fare is like a privately established, compact version of Whole Foods.

Its goods are similar, though its variety is more limited, but more of their stock is organic and GMO-free.

Earth Fare also has a bakery and pizzeria for those who get hungry while they shop.

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Those bulk bins are self-serve – just grab a plastic film bag and scoop as much as you’d like to purchase.

whole FooDs Whole Foods is, without a doubt, the bougiest of the Emory options. The store is an experience: dim overhead lighting, inventory of hipster snacks and up-and-coming foods.

Kind Bars, bunches of kale and vegan shrimp abound in this store, while other aisles offer mason jars and specialty toothpaste.

Whole Foods leans toward the environmentally and socially responsible, ensuring their vegetarian options are abundant, and offers trash and recycling bins throughout the store.

There is a bakery, a “hot bar” which serves any hot food, a gelato station, and a dining area.

Whole Foods is the perfect place for customers tired of finding the same products over and over again at other grocery stores.

Price: Whole Foods is the most expensive on this list. A bag of groceries will cost $45 to $65, if not more. earth Fare A 10-minute walk from Woodruff Circle, Earth Fare is located on the side of Emory Point facing Clifton Road. Brightly lit and refreshing, the restaurant attracts a large portion of

Up and bustling every day, DeKalb Farmer’s Market is laid out like a Costco that sells fresh ingredients and good food in bulk. Shoppers can find anything and everything, from worldwide fresh produce and home-churned almond butter to various loose leaf teas and coffee blends.

Their fruit is top-notch, and pastries are made fresh daily at their bakery.

They also have a hot bar and a salad bar — freshly made food is sold for $6 a box. The whole market is an indoor warehouse, so don’t expect polished wooden floors or imaginative decorations.

In exchange for its lack of highquality interior design, customers get good food, raw ingredients and baked sweets at a good value.

Both organic and non-organic options are available.

Price: A bag of food is around $10, which is not bad at all. overall There are a plethora of grocery shops around Emory, so you’re bound to find your perfect fit.

All of these shops offer organic and natural products, with higherend, branded products are available at Whole Foods and Earth Fare, while more bulk products are offered at Your DeKalb’s Farmer’s Market and Sprouts.

Now that you have a local guide to Emory’s surrounding grocery shops, best of luck, and have fun shopping.

— Contact Liwen Xu at liwen.xu@emory.edu

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attention to some decision making and [make] sure we are not giving shots Softball DePauw Mar 30 away … we will work from there,” Galloway said. “We can only control Softball 2:30 p.m. & 4:30 p.m.

WashU what we can control and hope to be Baseball 4 p.m.

WashU Friday able to climb up the leaderboard.”

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Middlebury dropping for this Eagles squad in the Softball 1 p.m. & 3 p.m.

WashU second and final round. the team shot the same score on Baseball 1 p.m. & 4 p.m.

WashU Saturday day two and maintained their No. 5 track & Field All Day Vertklasse Meeting April 1 rank.

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Coach John Sjoberg said. “Huntingdon April 2 W tennis Charleston Southern 1 p.m.

[College] obviously played great — they *Home Games in Bold made almost 40 birdies and I think we made 13 or 14 for the two days. that’s the difference right there.”

Hickton placed best for the Eagles, tying for No. 13 on the leaderboard. two for three with two rBIs in the Continued from Back Page He may not have had an albatross, second.

Emory will travel to St. Louis, Mo., but his steady play earned him a solid Sophomore centerfielder David Draper made a huge impact on offense, this weekend to take on Washington four-over-par score for the two-day going six for eight over the two games University in St. Louis in a four-game tournament. “[Hickton] bogeyed two of his last with two doubles, a home run and five series between March 31 and April 2. four [and still managed] to shoot 73,” the first game is Friday at 4 p.m. rBIs. Sjoberg said. “He was solid — it was a Additionally, senior shortstop Nick Chambers had a pair of hits and two — Contact Jacob Durst at pretty simple game for him most of the walks in the first game and Kim went jacob.j.durst@emory.edu day. He hit it on the fairway, made it Thursday

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on the green.”

Despite Hickton’s leading performance, Galloway’s week did not go unnoticed. He scored his first hole in one March 24 in addition to the threeunder-par hole March 27, which he said gave him the confidence to finish strong. “the highlight of [Monday] was Galloway,” Hickton said. “I have heard of [people scoring an albatross] but it’s pretty darn rare.”

According to Sjoberg, the strength of the top teams in this tournament made the competition important even though it was not as deep a field as the March 17 Jekyll Island Collegiate (Ga.).

With a strong showing at Jekyll and a victory at the UAA tournament, Sjoberg is more than pleased with the team’s performance thus far.

“It was a great month,” Sjoberg said.

“We hope to continue to play well and put ourselves in positions to be in contention and that’s the goal every week. the Eagles will compete for the final time this season April 8 and 9 at the Emory Spring Invitational in Stone Mountain, Ga. Kevin Kilgour contributed reporting.

— Contact Alisha Compton at alisha.compton@emory.edu

Softball Hopes for Revival Continued from Back Page winning formula. “this is the best season I’ve seen [Wray] have,” powers said. “She’s been hitting very well, as has [captain senior outfielder] taylor [Forte], with a hitting power I’ve never seen from her before.”

“We’re living in the moment and taking each challenge as it comes.”

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Freshman Kaitlyn Leonard (Center) races in the women’s 400m dash. Leonard finished No. 17 in the event with a time of 59.35.

Newhouse with a time of 3:52.24.

Freshman Isabel Saridakis added another second place in the pole vault, pulling off a 3.22m mark. the Eagles have said goodbye to their home track for the rest of the season, and will return to competition March 31 to compete at the Vertklasse Meeting at High point University (N.C.).

“Saturday really pointed out to everyone what a great team this is and the type of culture we have,” Curtin said. “Everyone knows that regardless of what their event is, they’re part of our team. Everyone on the team respects all the different disciplines of the sport and it really shows through.”

Wray remained optimistic when talking about the series with Case Western, focusing on what the team did well instead of dwelling on the losses.

“For the games that we won, we were able to string a ton of hits together and rally as a team,” Wray said. “And we were able to execute defensively.”

Wray has taken on a new outlook on the team’s play as she sees the end of her final season near.

“We’re living in the moment and taking each challenge as it comes,” Wray said. “post-season is still where we want to be, but for right now we’re enjoying the present and seeing where that leads us.” the Eagles have four more games for the month of March, facing off against Depauw University (Ind.) March 30 at Emory at 2 and 4 p.m. on March 31, the Eagles will play Washington University in St. Louis at 2:30 and 4:30 p.m.

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Bland Breaks 100m Emory Record Continued from Back Page been racing, but I do want to train harder and do better to move on to national meets and win there,” rogin said.

Another strong individual performer was junior Charlie Hu, who took first in the triple jump with a mark of 14.02m. Hu went on to score in the top eight of the javelin throw, long jump and high jump. the men’s 4x100m relay team also shone, placing seventh overall with a finishing time of 42.85. the team consisted of rogin, junior Max Helfman, freshman Aria Mohseni and senior Kyle Veator. the women’s team performed well across the board, registering 87 team points. As for individual performanc-

es, sophomore Dani Bland took the spotlight. Bland scored second place in the 100m dash with a time of 11.70, smashing the previous Emory record of 11.90. Just last week, Bland became the second Eagle ever to break 12 seconds in the 100m event.

Following Bland’s lead, Emory accrued a slew of second place finishes. one went to the 4x800m relay team of freshmen Jordan Burgess and Nicole Steiner, sophomore radhika Shah and junior Gabrielle Stravach. the team finished with a time of 9:29.48. Stravach went on to claim second in the 1500m run with a time of 4:40.99. the Eagles placed second in the 4x400m relay with freshman Kaitlyn Leonard, junior Erica Goldman and sophomores Dilys osei and Ariana

— Amy Wray, Senior captain

“Yo @POTUS even I know to stay away from the notifications section on Twitter.”

- Johnny Manziel’s Jan. 23 Tweet this is your friendly on Fire correspondent, returning from a long hiatus away from the Wheel. I apologize for the delay – there were many times when I considered returning, but certain events consistently got in the way.

It all started with the Super Bowl, which sent me into a sports coma that not even a kiss from Alex Morgan could cure. When I finally awoke, I found myself in rehab with none other than Johnny Manziel. We quickly became besties but, strangely enough, I have no memory of what happened between the time we were released to the moment I woke up covered in crude oil on the floor of his parents’ mansion.

Now, I’m making a comeback, because honestly, Emory needs me and my sound insight. Johnny Football promised to go sober last July, and it is with the same sincerity that I promise to serve Emory with the utmost pomp and circumstance. that being said, what the heck has happened to the National Football League? Can an on Fire correspondent not slip into a short Super-Bowlinduced coma for just a short while without the football world as we know it falling into complete and utter shambles? For god’s sake, Johnny Football isn’t even in the NFL. How can a man with the last name Football not be an NFL quarterback? Inconceivable.

Granted, things looked bleak before, with the team sent from hell, er, New England, winning yet another Super Bowl, but who knew how bad it could get? one day I’m chilling with my boy Johnny; the next I wake up to hear patriots owner robert Kraft say that tom Brady plans to play another seven years in the NFL? At least hit me with a trigger warning first. this leaves me with a few questions.

First off, is tom Brady actually Lord Voldemort? Let’s look at the facts. Both are named tom. Each one is clearly on a quest for immortality. No one dares say either name out of fear and/or disgust. Seven years, seven horcruxes? the evidence is piling up, people. tom Brady already crushed the hopes and dreams of an entire host of fair-weather Falcons fans. How many other cities are we going to let burn before we put an end to this madness?

Secondly, where does robert Kraft get off thinking he can waltz around disgracing the name of America’s favorite brand of boxed macaroni and cheese? How dare he. I propose an official petition to change this man’s title to robert Krap, in the name of SpongeBob-shaped macaroni morsels everywhere.

Yet the New England patsies are just the beginning. the NFL recently announced they are developing an “educational training video” to offer players “examples of appropriate and inappropriate celebrations.” Guys, Key and peele did this for y’all years ago. their video was meant to be absurd, of course, but we live in a world where SpC can hire the fake Migos, so at this point anything seems possible. Can’t wait for Hingle McCringleberry to get his first start soon.

Celebration penalties? We talkin’ ‘bout celebration penalties? Allen Iverson would be disgusted. Who knows, though — given the current state of the NFL, it’s difficult to imagine what players could possibly have to celebrate. In fact, celebrations may well disappear altogether. It would certainly appease the dictators of the No Fun League.

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Slow Start Fails to Meet Team’s High Standards

By Allison GelmAn Senior Staff Writer Emory women’s softball traveled to Cleveland to play four games against the Case Western reserve University (ohio) Spartans and ended the weekend 2-2. they lost March 24 in a close game, which ended in a score of 9-8 but returned strong in the second game for a 7-0 win. the Eagles prevailed once again March 25, exploding for 15 runs in the day’s first game, while limiting the Spartans to only three. the series concluded with a Case Western rally to defeat Emory 5-4. the team continued to reach a season total of seventeen wins and nine losses. Now just a few games past the halfway point in their regular season, the Eagles have already lost five more games than the entirety of their 2016 campaign. results have not lived up to expectations, but among the struggles thus far, a number of bright spots for this Eagle team lies ahead.

“We’ve seen lots of development in areas we didn’t have at the start,” junior first and third baseman Ashley powers said. “our hitting has really come through and our pitching has been great.”

Expectations were as high as ever coming into the season, but with a 17-9 record, the Eagles must adjust as they prepare for the final stretch of the

season. According to powers, the team has struggled to execute properly. “the struggle has really been focused on getting to combine all of these things to be turned on every single game,” powers said.

With experience in the Division III Softball Championship last season, captain and senior second baseman Amy Wray has seen a lot in her time at Emory. But now, with only a few months left of play this season, the clock is ticking for Wray and her team if they wish to turn things around. one of her favorite Emory moments — playing in the World Series — is an experience Wray and her teammates would like to repeat this year. the team still clings to World Series dreams, but given the struggle to secure consistent victories, adjustments were necessary. “our goals have changed,” Wray said. “Based [on] our successful season last year, we had our sights set on winning a national championship.

We need to take each game and each play as it is, find success in the little things and [build] up towards the larger goals.” the talent is there — the Eagles’ returned with a number of key performers from last year’s World Series run. Now it’s up to the players to put the pieces together to reach that

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uniors Max renke (front Left) and Andrew Harrington (front r iGht) compete in a doubles match against rhodes College (tenn.) freshman phil Lauture (Left) and ritwick Chatterjee (r iGht). the Emory duo fought to an 8-4 win, helping the Eagles to a near sweep, 8-1, over rhodes March 25.

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Team’s Depth Shines at Home By prosper Fields Senior Staff Writer

In their second consecutive home meet, Emory’s women’s track and field team placed fourth out of 26 schools, while the men placed third out of 21 schools in the Emory Classic March 24 to 25. the teams also accumulated a total of 28 personal bests. “the kids performed amazing both days across all events,” Head Coach John Curtin said. “the meets so far have been really good to us and we’ve

been blessed with good weather. overall, the level of competition has been outstanding. Every single person on the team is challenged [and] there’s plenty of competition at all levels, which is really important.” the men’s team earned 77 total points and dominated the 4x800m relay, winning first and second place.

First place went to Emory’s team of freshman Samuel Branson, senior Michael McBane and juniors Max Brown and robert Wilhelm III, with anchor Brown crossing the finish line

with a time of 7:53.54. Sophomore Ian George, junior Gregory Litle and seniors Brandon Cromer and Jake Schlessinger took second place in the event, trailing 21.07 seconds behind first.

Junior Benjamin rogin added eight points from both hurdle events, taking fourth in the 110m hurdles with an impressive time of 15.20 and sixth in the 400m hurdles with a time of 55.27.

“I’m definitely happy with how I’ve

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After 20-15 Loss, Series Concludes in Tie Albatross

Brightens Tough Tourney

By JACoB durst Senior Staff Writer Emory’s baseball team split a four-game series with Case Western reserve University (ohio) this past weekend, winning the first two games with scores of 11-1 and 4-0, and falling in the second two by tallies of 11-2 and 20-15. the Eagles played a pair of doubleheaders Friday March 24 and Saturday March 25. the story of the weekend was Emory’s pitching staff, which, after allowing only one run during the first two games, conceded 31 runs in the final two.

While Emory’s pitching has been their strongest weapon this season, Head Coach Mike twardoski noted that the bullpen had an uncharacteristically difficult series.

“We didn’t get very good innings out of [the] bullpen at the end,” twardoski said. “pitching has been the trademark of our team the last few years and we’ll have to work to get our pitching back in order to make a run.” the team’s 20-15 loss in the final game of the weekend was particularly heartbreaking. After a back and forth game that saw six lead changes, the Eagles led the Spartans by a score of 15-12 going into the top of the ninth.

However, Emory couldn’t hold onto its advantage as senior pitcher Kyle

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innings and logging eight strikeouts. twardoski praised Monk and Dimlow’s performances at the start of the weekend. “to have our closer [Monk] take a starter’s role and go seven [innings] was huge,” twardoski said. “Getting eight scoreless innings from Dimlow too was a great way to start the weekend.”

Freshman golfer Sam Galloway scored his first career albatross — two strokes on a par five — at the Huntingdon Intercollegiate (Ala.) March 28 and 29, highlighting an upand-down weekend that culminated in a fifth place finish out of the tournament’s 15 team field.

Junior golfer Keenan Hickton said that although Huntingdon held a solid hold on first place, Emory sat a mere eight shots out of second after the first round of play.

With aspirations for a higher finish, the team’s hopes were high heading into day two.

“We are all a little frustrated with the way we played today, but [if we] pay

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Senior outfielder Wilson Morgan scores three runs in the eagles’ epic final game against Case Western reserve University (ohio) that featured six lead changes and a total of 35 runs.

Monk and sophomore pitcher Charlie redovian gave up a combined eight runs on eight hits, allowing Case Western to take a stranglehold on the game.

At the plate, senior designated hitter Jeff ronpirin, junior first baseman Bubby terp and sophomore second baseman NJ Kim combined for eight hits, seven rBIs and four walks to spearhead the Emory bats. As a team,

Emory managed 13 hits and 13 walks in the final game of the series.

Monk and sophomore pitcher Billy Dimlow carried the Eagles in the first two games of the weekend. Monk was the hero of the series’ first game, throwing a one-run complete game and notching seven strikeouts. In the next game, Dimlow followed Monk’s spectacular performance with a dominating game of his own, throwing eight